Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Books - reading

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Byron, Lord

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

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

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

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Chambers, Robert

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Eco, Umberto

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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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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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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Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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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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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin