Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

- True, Herbert

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.

Hemingway, Ernest

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Townsend, Atwood H.

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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela