Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

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

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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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

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, William

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

Milton, John

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.