Best Quotes about Books - reading
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Phillips, Wendell
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
Sinyavsky, Andre
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Sandwell, B. K.
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Miller, Henry
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Barrow
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Asimov, Isaac
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Fadiman, Clifton
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Camus, Albert
I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.
Levine, Ghita
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
Mencken, H. L.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Aubrey, John
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Fuller, Margaret
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
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Kirk, E.N.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
McKenna, Richard
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
Proverb, Italian
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.
Calano, Jimmy
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Spielberg, Steven
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Leacock, Stephen B.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
True, Herbert
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
Wesley, John
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward
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
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Marcel, Anthony
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Mansfield, Katherine
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Horowitz, Lois
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Williams, Bert
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Gissing, George Robert
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Goldsmith, Oliver
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