Motivational Quotes

Books

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

- William Goldman

Best Quotes about Books

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Anna Quindlen

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Groucho Marx

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.