Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Gibbon, Edward

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

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

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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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 real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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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 bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Kump, Peter

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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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

Proverb, American

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Frost, Robert

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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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 best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Asimov, Isaac

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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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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Ruskin, John

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de