Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Asimov, Isaac

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Lee, Harper

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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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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Secondat, Charles de

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

Byron, Lord

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Critchfield, Jim

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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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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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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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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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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

Tupper, Martin

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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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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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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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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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

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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