1. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich

2. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”  - Edmund Burke

3. “The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” - Elizabeth Hardwick

4. “Reading will give you lasting pleasure.” - First Lady Laura Bush (quoted in U.S. News & World Report)

5. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass 6. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Harry S. Truman

7. “Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Hazel

Rochman

8. “A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” Lyndon Baines Johnson

9. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.” - Mark Twain

10. “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.” Marilyn Jager Adams

11. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” - Mason Cooley

12. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” - May Ellen Chase

13. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” - Mortimer Adler

14. “You teach a child to read, and he or she will be able to pass a literacy test.” - President George W. Bush (Townsend, Tennessee, Feb.

21, 2001

15. “A man is known by the books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” - Richard Steele

17. “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” - Samuel Johnson

18. “Choose an author as you choose a friend.” - Sir Christopher Wren

19. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo

20. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney

21. “I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.” - William

Phelps

22. “We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis

23. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” – Descartes

24. “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -

Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

25. "To read is to empower  To empower is to write  To write is to influence  To Influence is to change  To change is to live."  ~ Jane Evershed ~

26. "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." Elizabeth Hardwick 

27. "A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."  Jo Godwin 28. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."  Frank Zappa 29. "A library should be like a pair of open arms." Roger Rosenblatt 30. have always imagined that Paradise  will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

31. People die, but books never die. ~ Anonymous

32. Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton ~33. “Teaching reading IS rocket science.”  Louisa Moats

34. “Read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert“35. A home without books is a body without soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero36. If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well

viewed.” Lily Tomlin37. Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” Charles Scribner, Jr.38. Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us

everywhere.” Jean Rhys 39. Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own” Arthur Schopenhauer 40. Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure” Jane Brody

41. “In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.” S. I. Hayakawa

42. "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.” Francois Muriac

43. A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  ~Author Unknown

44. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  ~Chinese Proverb45. Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled "This could change your

life."  ~Helen Exley46. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.  ~E.P. Whipple47. Books are embalmed minds.  ~Bovee48. Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.  ~Plato49. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.  ~Mary Wortley

Montagu50. When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” Enrique Jardiel Poncela 51. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Joseph Addison52. A house without books is like a room without windows.  ~Heinrich Mann53. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a

counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.  ~Henry Ward Beecher54. The wise man reads both books and life itself.  ~Lin Yutang55. I like intellectual reading.  It's to my mind what fiber is to my body.  ~Grey Livingston56. To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read

it for a second time is to meet an old one.  ~Chinese Saying57. We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.  ~Henry Miller58. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.  ~Harold Bloom59. He who lends a book is an idiot.  He who returns the book is more of an idiot.  ~Arabic

Proverb60. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are

books that other folks have lent me.  ~Anatole France61. A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always

reading.  ~Jeremy Collier62. Books are delightful society.  If you go into a room and find it full of books -

even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.  ~William Ewart Gladstone

63. Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.  ~Jeremy Collier

64.65. The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

Anthony Trollope 66. Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power” Michael Foot 67. “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” - Logan Pearsall Smith

68. “Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.” M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)

69. “A text is at a students' independent reading level if they can read it with about 95% accuracy.” Marie B. Clay,

"An observation survey of early literacy achievement" (1993)

70. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  ~William Hazlitt

71. You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  ~Paul Sweeney

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

73. He fed his spirit with the bread of books.  ~Edwin Markham74. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good

book.  ~John Ruskin75. Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that

death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.  ~J. Swartz

76. I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.  ~Charles Lamb77. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.  ~Amos

Bronson Alcott78. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.  ~Voltaire79. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  It is wholesome and bracing for

the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.  ~Augustus Hare80. Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time).  It is the only way of

discovering what they contain.  A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.  ~E.M. Forster

81. Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds.  Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.  ~Judah Ibn Tibbon

82. I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.  ~Woodrow Wilson

83. Reading is the basics for all learning. -Bush, GeorgeW(alker)84.

- Welcome to The Quote Garden! celebrating 11 years online   1998-2009

  

Quotations about Books & Reading A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  ~Author Unknown

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.  ~Edward P. Morgan

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.  ~James Bryce

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.  ~Author Unknown

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.  ~G.K. Chesterton

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing.  It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.  ~Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  ~Toni Morrison

A good book has no ending.  ~R.D. Cumming

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.  ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.  ~Charles W. Eliot

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.  ~P.J. O'Rourke

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

I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.  ~Groucho Marx

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.  ~Mark Twain, attributed

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.  ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833

Let books be your dining table,And you shall be full of delightsLet them be your mattressAnd you shall sleep restful nights.~Author Unknown

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.  ~George Robert Gissing

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  ~Chinese Proverb

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.  ~Joe Ryan

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  ~William Hazlitt

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.  ~Thomas Helm

A dirty book is rarely dusty.  ~Author Unknown

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it.  I need resistance to celebrate!  ~William James

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  ~Paul Sweeney

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.  ~Oscar Wilde

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.  ~Franz Kafka

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.  Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.  ~Christopher Morley

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.  ~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.  ~Kenko Yoshida

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.  ~Jessamyn West

I suggest that 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.  ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

TV.  If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six.  Open your child's imagination.  Open a book.  ~Author Unknown

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.  ~Bern Williams

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.  ~John Aikin

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.  ~George Steiner

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.  ~Stéphane Mallarmé

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.  ~James Russell Lowell

Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."  ~Helen Exley

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know:  to touch words and have them touch you back.  ~Jim Fiebig

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:  this is the ideal life.  ~Mark Twain

A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.  ~Charles B. Fairbanks

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe?  The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.  ~Author Unknown

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.  ~Bulstrode Whitlock

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Reading means borrowing.  ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.  ~Jesse Lee Bennett

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

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity.  When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.  ~Washington Irving

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.  ~Clifton Fadiman

For friends... do but look upon good Books:  they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.  ~Francis Bacon

A book that is shut is but a block.  ~Thomas Fuller

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.  ~Thomas Carlyle

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away.  No one has stepped twice into the same river.  But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?  ~Marina Tsvetaeva

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.  ~Howard Pyle

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Medicine for the soul.  ~Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.  ~E.P. Whipple

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.  From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.  ~Gilbert Highet

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.  ~François Mauriac

Books are embalmed minds.  ~Bovee

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation.  They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly.  They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.  ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.  ~William Lyon Phelps

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading

belongs.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.  ~Charles Dudley Warner

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.  ~Sherri Chasin Calvo

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.  ~Ross MacDonald

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

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.  ~Francesco Petrarch

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.  ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  ~Edmund Burke

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.  ~André Maurois

A house without books is like a room without windows.  ~Heinrich Mann

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.  ~S.M. Crothers

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.  ~Edwin Markham

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.  ~John Ruskin

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

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.  ~John LeCarre

Never judge a book by its movie.  ~J.W. Eagan

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.  ~Charles Lamb

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.  ~John Lyly

The wise man reads both books and life itself.  ~Lin Yutang

I like intellectual reading.  It's to my mind what fiber is to my body.  ~Grey Livingston

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works.  My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.  ~Laurence Sterne

You may have tangible wealth untold;Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me.~Strickland Gillilan (Thanks, Laurel)

He who lends a book is an idiot.  He who returns the book is more of an idiot.  ~Arabic Proverb

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.  ~Lord Chesterfield

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.  ~Augustine Birrell

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.  ~George Steiner

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.  ~Stéphane Mallarmé

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.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.  ~Helen E. Haines

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.  ~W. Somerset Maugham

How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead!  What a heritage of stored wealth!  What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!  ~J.N. Larned

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.  ~Amos Bronson Alcott

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.  ~Voltaire

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.  ~Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.  ~Augustus Hare

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time).  It is the only way of discovering what they contain.  A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.  ~E.M. Forster

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book!  A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands

of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.  ~Charles Kingsley

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds.  Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.  ~Judah Ibn Tibbon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.  ~Francis Bacon

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.  ~Walter Pater

That place that does containMy books, the best companions, is to meA glorious court, where hourly I converseWith the old sages and philosophers;And sometimes, for variety, I conferWith kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;Calling their victories, if unjustly got,Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,Deface their ill-placed statues. ~Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.  I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.  ~Henry David Thoreau

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  ~Chinese Saying

O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.~John Wilson

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.  ~Anatole France

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.  ~Jeremy Collier

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.  ~Plato

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.  ~Mary Wortley Montagu

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.  ~Woodrow Wilson

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.  ~Henry David Thoreau

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.  ~Sutton Elbert Griggs

Many persons read and like fiction.  It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.  ~Rose Macaulay

Americans like fat books and thin women.  ~Russell Baker

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men:  they are the Meccas of the mind.  ~G.E. Woodberry

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.  ~W.E. Channing

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.  ~Holbrook Jackson

A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.  ~Douglas Jerrold

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.  ~William Styron

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."  ~Holbrook Jackson

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear;

the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.  ~Henry Miller

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

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge.  It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.  ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.  It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.  ~Holbrook Jackson

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.  ~Lord Chesterfield

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Books are delightful society.  If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.  ~William Ewart Gladstone

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.  ~Jeremy Collier

Enjoy favorite quotes about books and reading.

Beware of the man of one book.~ Anonymous ~

Good children's literature appeals not only tothe child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

~ Anonymous ~

A library is a hospital for the mind.~ Anonymous ~

People die, but books never die. ~ Anonymous ~

If you can read this, thank a teacher.~ Anonymous Teacher ~

I've traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, 

Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've been where no-one's been before, 

Learned secrets from writers and cooks All with one library ticket 

To the wonderful world of books. ~ Anonymous ~

Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton ~

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the manfar better than through mortal friends.

~ Dawn Adams ~

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves tomankind, which are delivered down from generation to

generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn,~ Joseph Addison  ~

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill upits empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

~ Joseph Addison ~

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.~ Joseph Addison  ~

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.~ Mortimer J. Adler ~

That is a good book which is opened withexpectation and closed in profit.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. (1873) ~ Louisa May Alcott ~

When I look back, I am so impressed againwith the life-giving power of literature. 

If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense ofmyself in the world, I would do that again by reading,

just as I did when I was young.~ Maya Angelou ~

Beware of the man of one book.~ Thomas Aquinas ~

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.~ Isaac Asimov ~

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 menhe should have known no more than other men.

~ John Aubrey ~

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.

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested:

that is, some books are to be read only in parts,others to be read, but not curiously, and some few

to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ~ Francis Bacon ~

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.

~ Francis Bacon ~

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to bechewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts,others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly,

and with diligence and attention.~ Francis Bacon ~

Books are men of higher stature;the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

~ E.S. Barrett ~

The printing press is either the greatest blessingor the greatest curse of modern times,

sometimes one forgets which it is.~ Sir James M. Barrie ~

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 innocentlydivert and pleasantly entertain himself,

as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.~ Barrow ~

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

~ Stan Barstow ~

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!~ Charles Baudelaire ~

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party,a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

A book is good company.It is full of conversation without loquacity.

It comes to your longing with full instruction,but pursues you never. 

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.~ Stephen Vincent Benet ~

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it,

whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspectsof his inner self that are opened by the text,

that road cut through the interior jungle foreverclosing behind it: because the reader follows the movement

of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming,whereas the copier submits it to command.

~ Walter Benjamin ~

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.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson ~

When we read a story, we inhabit it.The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. 

~ John Berger  ~

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

~ Aneurin Bevan ~

Reading is not a duty, and has consequentlyno business to be made disagreeable.

~ Augustine Birrell ~

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

~ Jim Bishop ~

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the visionand strengthens our most fatal tendency--

the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~ Allan Bloom  ~

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen,is that you can take it to bed with you.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin ~

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.Jorge Luis Borges

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.

~ Malcolm Bradbury ~

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.Just get people to stop reading them.

~ Ray Bradbury ~

The closest we will ever come to anorderly universe is a good library.

~ Ashleigh Brilliant ~

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

~ Joseph Brodsky ~

It is well to read everything of something,and something of everything.~ Lord Henry P. Brougham ~

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.~ Rita Mae Brown ~

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-roompiled high with cases in my father's name;

Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and outamong the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse

between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and thereat this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heatsof 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!~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, 

And calculating profits, -- so much help 

By so much reading. it is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge 

Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth -- 

'T is then we get the right good from a book." (1857) ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.(1994) ~ Emilie Buchwald ~

There is no past, so long as book shall live!Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.~ Edmund Burke ~

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.~ Richard De Bury ~

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

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demandstwo 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, byreading faster and with greater comprehension.

~ Jimmy Calano ~

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

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.~ Thomas Carlyle ~

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been--it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.

~ Thomas Carlyle ~

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.~ Thomas Carlyle ~

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.~ Thomas Carlyle ~

In books lies the soul of the whole past time. ~ Thomas Carlyle ~

What is the use of a book', thought Alice,'without pictures or conversations?' 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand,and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors,

that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.~ Oswald Chambers ~

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.~ Robert Chambers ~

A good title is the title of a successful book.~ Raymond Chandler ~

The flood of print has turned reading into a process

of gulping rather than savoring~ Warren Chappell ~

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)~ Mary Ellen Chase ~

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.~ Lord Chesterfield ~

The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.~ Chinese proverb ~

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

~ Rufus Choate ~

A room without books is like a body without a soul.~ Marcus T. Cicero ~

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant,than your everlasting readers.

~ William Cobbett ~

Force yourself to reflect on what you read,paragraph by paragraph.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1.) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in 

nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to getthrough a book for the sake of getting through the time. 

3.) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by 

what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in actionthe wisdom we get from thought -- sleep.

When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead,who have nothing of peevishness, pride,

or design in their conversation.~ Jeremy Collier ~

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

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books;they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

~ Scott Corbett ~

The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book-can have as much to do with its worth 

as anything the author puts into it.~ Norman Cousins ~

The book salesman should be honoredbecause he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very

books we need most and neglect most.~ Frank Crane ~

It was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the otherway about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of

their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any stronghand to keep them down. (1963) 

~ Agatha Christie ~

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

~ Jim Critchfield ~

The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger thannormal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop.

He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy thatthe most important benefit of reading is the gaining

of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words

in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.~ Wade E. Cutler ~

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

~ Frank Dane ~

Next, in importance to books are their titles.~ Paul Davies ~

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 ~

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed --and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

~ John Dawkins ~

The man who is fond of books is usually a manof lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

~ Christopher Dawson ~

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man:nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;

civilization grow old and die out; new races build others.But in the world of books are volumes that have seen

this happen again and again and yet live on.Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written,

still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.~ Clarence Day ~

There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands away,

Nor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry.~ Emily Dickinson ~

There is more treasure in books thanin all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

~ Walt Disney ~

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking,and an art of writing.

~ Isaac Disraeli ~

It is a great thing to start life with a small numberof really good books which are your very own.

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~

Never judge a book by its movie.~ J. W. Eagan ~

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time,it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

~ Umberto Eco ~

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from itscreative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own

brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.~ Albert Einstein ~

Don't join the book burners. Don't be afraid to goin your library and read every book.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,

and the most patient of teachers.”~ Charles W. Eliot ~

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.~ T. S. Eliot ~

If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friendsimprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Tis the good reader that makes the good book;a good head cannot read amiss:

in every book he finds passages which seem confidencesor asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  ~

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

 ~ Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 ~

To read is to empower To empower is to write To write is to influence 

To Influence is to change To change is to live. 

~ Jane Evershed ~More than a Tea Party

Read, read, read.~ William Faulkner ~

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading,

I would spurn them all.~ Francois FéNelon ~

Read in order to live.~ Gustave Flaubert ~

I suggest that the only books that influence usare those for which we are ready,

and which have gone a little farther down our particular paththan we have yet got ourselves. 

~ E. M. Forster ~

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay.The human race did without them for thousands of years

and may decide to do without them again.~ E. M. Forster ~

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them;the only books I have in my library are books

that other folks have left me.~ Anatole France ~

If I read a book that impresses me,I have to take myself firmly in hand,

before I mix with other people;otherwise they would think my

mind rather queer. (1952) ~ Anne Frank ~

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome oneon a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Read much, but not many books.~ Benjamin Franklin ~

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.~ Jean Fritz ~

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.~ W. Fusselman ~

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer bereading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books

You will be reading meanings.~ Harold S. Geneen ~

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselvesan end to which our studies may point.

The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.~ Edward Gibbon ~

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company. 

~ André Gide ~

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nosebetween the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

~ George Robert Gissing ~ 

Read books. They are good for us.~ Natalie Goldberg ~ 

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutionsto which you can go without credentials.

You don't even need the sticker on your windshieldthat you need to get into the public beach.

All you need is the willingness to read.~ Harry Golden ~

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend;

and when I read over a book I have perused before,it resembles the meeting of an old one.

~ Sir James Goldsmith ~

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of masteringa series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills.

Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifleor the intricacies of close order drill "by the numbers,"

recruits to reading learn its mechanics soundby sound and word by word.

~ Jacquelyn Gross ~

I have read your book and much like it.~ Moses Hadas ~

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,

it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.~ Elizabeth Hardwick ~

Books give not wisdom where none was before.But where some is, there reading makes it more.

~ John Harington ~

MY BOOK!I did it!I did it! 

Come and lookAt what I’ve done!

I read a book! When someone wrote it

Long agoFor me to read,

How did he knowThat this was the bookI’d take from the shelf

And lie on the floorAnd read by myself?

I really read it!Just like that!

Word by word, From first to last!I’m sleeping withThis book in bed,

This first FIRST bookI’ve ever read!

~ David L. Harrison ~(from Somebody Catch My Homework)

In a very real sense, people who have read good literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

~ S. I. Hayakawa ~

Whenever they burn books they will also,in the end, burn human beings.

 ~ Heinrich Heine ~ (Almansor:  A Tragedy)

All good books are alike in that they are truerthan if they had really happened

and after you are finished reading oneyou will feel that all that happened

to you and afterwards it all belongs to you;the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,

and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.~ Gilbert Highet ~

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,but the thought which it suggests;

just as the charm of music dwells not in the tonesbut in the echoes of our hearts.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

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 the latter.~ Paxton Hood~

The books we read should be chosen with great care,that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,

"The medicines of the soul."~ Paxton Hood ~

What a school thinks about its library is a measureof what it feels about education.

~ Harold Howe ~Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

and a former U.S. Commissioner of Education

The proper study of mankind is books.~ Aldous Huxley ~

The end of reading is not more books but more life.~ George Holbrook Jackson ~

The newest books are those that never grow old.~ George Holbrook Jackson ~

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine,or enjoy friendship, love or life.~ George Holbrook Jackson ~

If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~ Japanese proverb ~

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.~ Thomas Jefferson ~

The end of reading is not more books but more life.~ Holbrook Jackson ~

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.~ Samuel Johnson ~

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readilyin your hand, are most useful after all.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him,for what he reads as a task will do him little good. 

~ Samuel Johnson ~

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.~ Samuel Johnson ~

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.~ Joineriana ~

The worst thing about new books is thatthey keep us from reading the old ones.

~ Joseph Joubert ~

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather anda little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.

~ John Keats ~

I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read and

perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.~ John Keats ~

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it,except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

~ Thomas ã Kempis ~

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you,and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--

such is a pleasure beyond compare.~ Yosida Kenko ~

I am a part of everything that I have read.~ John Kieran ~

The libraries have become my candy store.~ Juliana Kimball ~

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.Charles Kingsley

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent.It has not been the devil's policy to keep the

masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read,he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

~ E. N. Kirk ~

You can either read something many times in order to be assured

that you got it all, or else you can define your purposeand use techniques which will assure that you have met it

and gotten what you need.~ Peter Kump ~

There should be a little voice in your head like the storytelleris saying it.  And if there's not, then you're just lookin' at the words.

 ~ LaKeisha ~(9th Grader in San Francisco)

Read the rest of the article about reading for understandingby following the link to WestEd's R&D Alert Newsletter, Summer 1999.

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections,spoilers of the symmetry of shelves,

and creators of odd volumes.~ Charles Lamb ~

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.Books think for me.~ Charles Lamb ~

What is reading, but silent conversation.~ Walter Savage Landor ~

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me:nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort.

And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the readersits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles.

That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves youso safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show.

And that's what my books are not and never will be.Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage,

and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience --let him read someone else.

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regardedby the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

~ Fran Lebowitz ~

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

~ Harper Lee ~

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

~ Spike Lee ~

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky.My pile of books

Are a mile high.How I love them!How I need them!

I'll have a long beardBy the time I read them.

~ Arnold Lobel ~

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

~ John Locke ~

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 ofin the amiable self assertion of youth. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

For books are more than books, they are the life,the very heart and core of ages past,

the reason why men lived and worked and died,the essence and quintessence of their lives.

~ Amy Lowell ~

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollenfrom one to another mind.~ James Russell Lowell  ~

In science, read by preference the newest works.In literature, read the oldest.

The classics are always modern.~ Lord Edward Lytton ~

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.~ Hugh Maclennan ~

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.~ Stephane Mallarme ~

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 ~

Life happened because I turned the pages.~ Alberto Manguel ~

A History of Reading, 1996 

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives

with another who shares the same books.~ Katherine Mansfield ~

Once we have learned to read, meaning of wordscan somehow register without consciousness.

~ Anthony Marcel ~

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.~ Harriet Martineau ~

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourselfa refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. 

~ Groucho Marx  ~

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

Groucho Marx

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you,but the one which makes you think.

~ Mccosh ~

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading,to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,

is good for him.~ Richard McKenna ~

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books -- theyare dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.(1940) 

~ Esther Meynell ~

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the onewhich gave it birth a book is dead to us.

Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.~ Henry Miller ~

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.~ John Milton ~

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.~ John Milton ~

Books and marriage go ill together.~ Molière ~

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.~ Lady M. W. Montague ~

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.~ Montesquieu ~

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.

~ John Morely ~

Book lovers will understand me,and they will know too that part of the pleasure

of a library lies in its very existence.~ Jan Morris ~

A dose of poison can do its work but once.A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

~ William Murray ~

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

~ Kathleen Norris ~

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.(1857) ~ Margaret Oliphant ~

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading;

but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship ofthought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

~ Theodore Parker ~

It is not enough to simply teach children to read;we have to give them something worth reading.Something that will stretch their imaginations-

something that will help them make sense of their own livesand encourage them to reach out toward peoplewhose lives are quite different from their own.

~ Katherine Paterson ~

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. 

~ William Penn ~

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.~ Austin Phelps ~

I divide all readers into two classes:Those who read to rememberand those who read to forget.

~ William Phelps ~

No one can read with profit that whichhe cannot learn to read with pleasure.

~ Noah Porter ~

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 ~

There is no reason why the same man should likethe same books at eighteen and forty-eight. 

~ Ezra Pound ~

Books do furnish a room.~ Anthony Powell ~

I would be most content if my children grew up to bethe kind of people who think decorating

consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. (1993) ~ Anna Quindlen ~

Reading makes immigrants of us all.It takes us away from home, but more important,

it finds homes for us everywhere.~ Hazel Rochman ~

Upon books the collective education of the race depends;they are the sole instruments of registering, 

perpetuating and transmitting thought.~ Henry C. Rogers ~

Everything you need for better future and successhas already been written. And guess what?

All you have to do is go to the library.~ Jim Rohn ~

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.~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents.This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland

and other favorites of the nursery.~ A. S. W. Rosenbach ~

A library should be like a pair of open arms.~ Roger Rosenblat ~t

Prerequisite for rereadability in books:that they be forgettable.

~ Jean Rostand ~

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the workto the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum

of what it is possible to think. Books become good when theygo to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger

the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.~ Salman Rushdie ~

All books are divisible into two classes,the books of the hour, and the books of all time. 

~ John Ruskin ~

Be sure that you go to the author to getat his meaning, not to find yours.

~ John Ruskin ~

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.~ John Ruskin ~

There are two motives for reading a book;one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writingor at least tickle your thinking." 

~ William Safire ~

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that,

when you're all done reading it,you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours

and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.That doesn't happen much, though. 

~ J. D. Salinger ~

A library is thought in cold storage.~ Herbert Samuel ~

Books....are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em,then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind,

as evidence of our earlier stages of development. (1928) ~ Dorothy Sayers ~

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

The more that you read,the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,the more places you'll go.

~ Dr. Seuss ~

How can you dare teach a man to readuntil you've taught him everything else first?

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

The humble little school library ... was a ramp to everythingin the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and

imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped. ~ Lee Sherman, ~ 

(Editor of Northwest Education)Learn more about the importance of reading by following the linkto the Fall 1998 issue of Northwest Education, an online journalpublished by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaitingyou in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so?

The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.~ Andre Sinyavsky ~

We shouldn't teach great books;we should teach a love of reading.

~ B. F. Skinner ~

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the differentdinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the differentbooks which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food

in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.~ Sydney Smith ~

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.~ Steven Spielberg ~

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.~ Richard Steele ~

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;they are the life, the soul of reading.

 ~ Laurence Sterne ~

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

~ Fred Stoller ~

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

~ William Styron ~

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.

~ J. Swartz ~

Books--the children of the brain.~ Jonathan Swift ~

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stampand esteem of the ages through which they have passed

~ Sir William Temple ~

My home is where my books are. (1909) ~ Ellen Thompson ~

Books are the treasured wealth of the worldand the fit inheritance of generations and nations. 

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment,but in which each thought is of unusual daring;

such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not beentertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --

such call I good books.~ Henry David Thoreau ~

How many a man has dated a new era in his lifefrom the reading of a book. (1854)

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Read the best books first,

or you may not have a chance to read them at all.~ Henry David Thoreau ~

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannotread and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

~ Alvin Toffler ~

The Brahmins say that in their books there are manypredictions of times in which it will rain.

But press those books as strongly as you can,you can not get out of them a drop of water.

So you can not get out of all the books that containthe best precepts the smallest good deed.

~ Count Leo Tolstoy ~

No matter how busy you may think you are,you must find time for reading,

or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.~ Atwood H. Townsend ~

Education... has produced a vast population able to readbut unable to distinguish what is worth reading,an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

~ G. M. Trevelyan ~

One half who graduate from college never read another book.~ Herbert True ~

There are books so alive that you're always afraid thatwhile you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed,

has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too,and like a river moved on and moved away.

No one has stepped twice into the same river.But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

~ Marina Tsvetaeva ~

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~

Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.~ Mark Twain ~

A classic is something that everybody wants to have readand nobody wants to read." 

~ Mark Twain ~

My books are water;those of the great geniuses are wine --

everybody drinks water.~ Mark Twain ~

The man who doesn't read good bookshas no advantage over the man who can't read them.

 ~ Mark Twain ~

I was born with the impression that what happened in books wasmuch more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,

than what happened in life. (1980) ~ Anne Tyler ~

I've traveled the world twice over,Met the famous; saints and sinners,Poets and artists, kings and queens,

Old stars and hopeful beginners,I've been where no-one's been before,

Learned secrets from writers and cooksAll with one library ticket

To the wonderful world of books.~ Unknown ~

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

~ Raoul Vaneigem ~

It is with books as with men -a very small number play a great part,

the rest are lost in the multitude.~ Voltaire ~

What harm can a book do that costs a hundred crowns?Twenty volumes folio will never cause a revolution;

it is the little portable volumes of thirty sous that are to be feared.~ Voltaire ~

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.~ Jessamyn West ~

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.~ Walt Whitman ~

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.~ Bert Williams ~

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

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps,but still attached to life at all four corners.

~ Virginia Woolf ~

When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers andlawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards --

their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly uponimperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say,not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our booksunder our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to

give them here. They have loved reading. (1932) ~ Virginia Woolf ~

Old books that have ceased to be of serviceshould no more be abandoned than should old friends

who have ceased to give pleasure.~ Sir Peregrine Worsthorne ~

Choose an author as you choose a friend.~ Sir Christopher Wren ~

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the

course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in mesome long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

~ Malcolm X ~

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape,on the day the first book was written.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin ~

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Library / Book Collection Quotes

The true university these days is a collection of books.- Thomas Carlyle

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. - Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.- Cicero

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. - Bacon

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.- Newell D. Hillis

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.- Alexander Smith

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.- Richard de Bury

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.- Owen Meredith, from Inspirational Quotes About Libraries, Librarians and Book Collections

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.- J. A. Langford

No furniture so charming as books.- Sydney Smith

Medicine for the soul.- Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.- Thomas Jefferson

A library is thought in cold storage.- Herbert Samuel

Libraries are not made; they grow.- Augustine Birrell

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.- Augustine Birrell

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.- Barbara Tuchman

My libraryWas dukedom large enough.- Shakespeare, The Tempest

Your library is your portrait. - Holbrook Jackson

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge! It blossoms through the year! - Richard Brainsley Sheridan

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom. - Shakespeare, The Tempest

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. - Samuel Johnson

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.- Luigi Barzini

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.- Virginia Woolf

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?- James Boswell

The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization.- John F. Budd

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.- Augustine Birrell

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been

left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.- John Bright

Come, and take choice of all my library,And so beguile thy sorrow.- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is impossible to enter a large library... without feeling an inward sensation of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from the mass of mind which is scattered around you.- James Crossley

Quotes About BooksIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.- Harry A. Overstreet

All that mankind has done, though, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.- Thomas Carlyle

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead. - Clarence Day

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that place where the books are kept.- John Steinbeck

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin P. Whipple

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.- Ross MacDonald

I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good book is the best of friends. - English Proverb

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker-- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.- Theodore Parker

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.- George William Curtis

Reading Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain

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

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.- Logan Pearsall Smith

The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones. - Joseph Joubert

In reading, as in eating, an appetite is half the feast.- Anonymous

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.- Philip Gilbert Hamilton

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.- Thomas Hobbes

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. - Sean Wilentz, Reader's Quotation Book from Cool Quotes About Libraries Books and Knowledge

 

Quotes for Recommended Book Lists

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. - Jacques Ellul

Show me the books he loves and I shall know / The man far better than through mortal friends.- S. Weir Mitchell

People will not be better than the books they read.- Bishop Potter

If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading a poor book is an opportunity lost of reading a good one.- Anonymous

One sure window into a person's soul is his reading list.- Mary B. W. Tabor

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. - Richard Baxter

It is with books as it is with men -- a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it to only the best books.- Sydney Smith

Choose an author as you would a friend.- Wentworth Dillon

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.- George Gilfillan

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.- Henry David Thoreau

Indiscriminate reading is unprofitable to the mind. - Latin Proverb

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again -- for like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.- Joineriana

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.- Paxton Hood

 

Quotes About Finding Information

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found.- A.A. Hodge

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way.- Franklin P. Adams

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.- Samuel Johnson

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.- Charles F. Kettering

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. - Benjamin Disraeli

To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning.- Anonymous

 

Censorship Quotes

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.- Walt Whitman

"There is no book so bad,” said the bachelor, “but something good may be found in it.- Cervantes, Don Quixote

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.- Leonardo da Vinci

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there. - Claire Booth Luce

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.- William Westmoreland

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. - English Proverb

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.- Claude Adrien Helvetius

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Funny Library Quotes

A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.- Henry Brooke

Book lovers never go to bed alone.- Unknown

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.- Rex Stout

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.- Tom Masson

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.- Mark Twain

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.- Unknown

Book -- what they make a movie out of for television. - Leonard Louis Levinson

On how many people's libraries, as on bottles from the drugstore, one might write: "For external use only."- Unknown

Quotes About Borrowing Books

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me.- Anatole France

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.- Charles Lamb

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.- Gilles Ménage

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck

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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” 

- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)

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 4.0“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” 

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- Abraham Lincoln

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“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.” 

- Abraham Lincoln

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“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.” 

- Andre Gide

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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.” 

- Angela Carter

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“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” 

- Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

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 4.1“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” 

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- Anonymous teacher

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“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.” 

- Anthony Trollope

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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.” 

- Arthur Christopher Benson

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“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.” 

- Arthur Helps

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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” 

- Austin Phelps

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“The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” 

- Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964

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

- Bell Hooks

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“We read to know we are not alone.” 

- C.S. Lewis

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“The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.” 

- Charles Clark, "Building Fluency: Do It Right and Do It Well!" (1999)

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“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” 

- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

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“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.” 

- Christopher Morley

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” 

- Confucius

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

- Coolio

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- Denis Parsons Burkitt

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

- Descartes

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“The connection between reading speed and comprehension; a film is made up of still images flashed in rapid succession to simulate movement. Slow down the film, and the movement and meaning slows and the film's impact is diminished. Viewers won't learn as much about the film as if it were shown at normal speed. With reading the same thing can happen. When a person reads word by word, like frame by frame, they are not reading on the level of ideas. You need to read on some level that's more conversational and allows things to coalesce into ideas themselves.” 

- Doug Evans, Institute of Reading Development

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“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” 

- Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

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“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” 

- Edmund Burke

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- Edward P. Morgan

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” 

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” 

- Emilie Buchwald

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“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.” 

- Emoke B'Racz, Writing in Malaprop's Newsletter

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- Fashion designer Bill Blass, quoted in Worth (September 1999)

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“Reading will give you lasting pleasure.” 

- First Lady Laura Bush (quoted in U.S. News & World Report)

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“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.” 

- Fortune

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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.” 

- Francis Bacon

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” 

- Frederick Douglass

Rank #36“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to

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apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” 

- Gaston Bachelard

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“The nonreading children are the greatest problem in American education.” 

- Glenn Doman, "How to Teach Your Baby to Read"

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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.” 

- Groucho Marx

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“Read in order to live.” 

- Gustave Flaubert

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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” 

- Harry S. Truman

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“All evidence points to the seemingly illogical conclusion that the faster most people read, the better they understand.” 

- Harry Shefter, Faster Reading Self-Taught

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“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” 

- Hazel Rochman

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“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” 

- Henny Youngman

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“The goal in fluency instruction is not fast reading, although that happens to be a by-product of the instruction, but fluent meaning-filled reading.” 

- International Reading Association

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“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.” 

- Isaac D'Israeli

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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.” 

- Jacqueline Kennedy

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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.” 

- John Berger

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

- John Witherspoon

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“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.” 

- Joseph Addison

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- Joseph Brodsky

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“The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.” 

- Joseph Joubert

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“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” 

- Katherine Patterson

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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.” 

- Lady Montagu

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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- Lord Henry P. Brougham

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“Teaching reading IS rocket science.” 

- Louisa Moats

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“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” 

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

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“Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.” 

- M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)

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“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.” 

- Madonna (1991)

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- Manya and Eric De Leeuw, Read Better, Read Faster: A New Approach to Efficient Reading

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“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” 

- Marcel Proust

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

- Margaret Fuller

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“A text is at a students' independent reading level if they can read it with about 95% accuracy.” 

- Marie B. Clay, "An observation survey of early literacy achievement" (1993)

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“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.” 

- Marie Clay

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the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.” 

- Marilyn Jager Adams

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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.” 

- Mark Twain

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“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” 

- Mark Twain

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“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” 

- Martin Tupper

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“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” 

- Mary Schmich

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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” 

- Mason Cooley

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“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.” 

- Maud Casey

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“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” 

- May Ellen Chase

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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” 

- Maya Angelou

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“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending.” 

- Mick Foley

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

- Mortimer Adler

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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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“Fluency is a bigger problem for many American middle graders than accuracy.” 

- National Reading Panel, 2000

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“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” 

- National Reading Panel, 2000

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“have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.” 

- Oscar Levant

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“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” 

- P. J. O'Rourke

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“You teach a child to read, and he or she will be able to pass a literacy test.” 

- President George W. Bush (Townsend, Tennessee, Feb. 21, 2001)

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“A man is known by the books he reads.” 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” 

- Ray Bradbury

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“Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.” 

- Richard L. Allington, "What Really Matters for Struggling Readers" (2001)

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

- Richard Steele

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“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” 

- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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- Robertson Davies

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“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” 

- S.I. Hayakawa

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“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” 

- Samuel Johnson

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“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” 

- Samuel Johnson

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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.” 

- Sir Christopher Wren

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miseries of life.” 

- Somerset Maugham

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

- Stan Barstow

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“Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.” 

- Steven Pinker

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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” 

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Victor Hugo

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“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” 

- Voltaire

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

- W. Fusselman

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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” 

- Walt Disney

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“The first law of skillful reading is merely an application of the Law of Relative Importance. You must perceive, first of all, the total offerings of the printed matter; then you must appraise these.” 

- Walter Pitkin, The Art of Rapid Reading

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“What is reading but silent conversation?” 

- Walter Savage Landor

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“Read, read, read.” 

- William Faulkner

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“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” 

- William James

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“The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.” 

- William Murchison

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“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.” 

- William Phelps

Books and Reading Quotes and Quotations

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.- Samuel Johnson

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.- Ernest Hemingway

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All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.- Richard De Bury

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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.- Amos Bronson Alcott

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Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.- Aldous Huxley

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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.- John he Carri

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.- Arthur Balfour

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If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.- William Gerhardie

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.- Benjamin Franklin

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.- Walter Sickert

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.- W. H. Auden

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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.- Benjamin Disraeli

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The dust and silence of the upper shelf.- Bob Macaulay

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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.- Jacques Ellul

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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.- Anthony Trollope

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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.- Anthony Burgess

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The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style.- Phillip Babcock Gove

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To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.- Robert Burchfield

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What is reading but silent conversation?- Walter Savage Landor

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'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.- Harry S. Truman

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You should read it, though there is much that is skip-worthy.- Herbert Asquith

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.- Jean Cocteau

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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.- Clifton Fadiman

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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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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.- Daniel J. Boorstin

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The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.- Gertrude Stein

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Reading after a certain (time) 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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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.- Northrop Frye

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Literature is news that stays news.- Ezra Pound

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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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Laws die, books never.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.- John Milton

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Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.- Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.- Anatole France

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Discretion is not the better part of biography.- Lytton Strachey

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A dictionary should be descriptive, not prescriptive.- Phillip Babcock Gove

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Book lovers never go to bed alone.- Anonymous

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It circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen publishers, and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.- Patrick Dennis

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The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.- Contanitin, Comte de Volney

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.- Stendhal

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I read part of it all the way through.- Sam Goldwyn

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

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First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.- Hortense Calisher

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.- John Harington

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A good book has no ending.- R. D. Dimming

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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!- Bible

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!- James Russell Lowell

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I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.- Mortimer J. Adler

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.- Mortimer J. Adler

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Books think for me.- Charles Lamb

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Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.- Samuel Johnson

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Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.- William Dean Howells

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.- Thomas Carlyle

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I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.- Samuel Butler

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.- Benjamin Jowett

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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.- John Ruskin

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.- Arthur Helps

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

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A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.- G. C. Lichtenberg

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?- Henry Ward Beecher

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Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.- Goethe

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I am a part of all I have read.- John Kieran

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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.- E. B. White

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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.- Anatole France

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.- Francis Yeats-Brown

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.- Daniel J. Boorstin

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A good title is the title of a successful book.- Raymond Chandler

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Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

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Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.- William Jovanovich

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.- Dylan Thomas

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A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.- Lome Pierce

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.- Marcel Proust

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.- Francis Bacon

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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.- Arthur Helps

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Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.- Walt Whitman

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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.- Chinese proverb

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.- Ross MacDonald

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There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.- Frank Davies

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. * Joseph Addison

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. * Gaston Bachelard

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

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. * John Berger

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--the belief that the here and now is all there is. * Allan Bloom

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. * Ralph Waldo Emerson

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. * André Gide

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. * Samuel Johnson

What is reading but silent conversation? * Walter Savage Landor

After all, the world is not a stage--not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience--let him read someone else. * D. H. Lawrence

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

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. * Harriet Martineau

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. * Montesquieu

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. * William Penn

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? * Marina Tsvetaeva

Quotes about Libraries and Books

Resources: Quotation Sites Quotes on Books, Reading & Libraries, Librarians   General Resources for "Quotations"    More Quotes about Libraries   Related, See my: page with Books about Librarians & Libraries  

and Reading Online & Off Resources

Shop for Library Lovers   for Book Collectors and more. 

Shop for Posters to Decorate  and Inspire! ALA's Graphics Materials

"Practice Random Acts of Reading!"

Ever find yourself needing a Quotation to motivate, or tag line for your e-mail signature - Concerning Libraries, Books or Reading? Here are several web sites..that have All the "write - right" Words. (remember - there may be some duplication at each site)

"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure

of a library lies in its very existence." ~ Jan Morris ~

Quotes about books, libraries and reading Books & Reading

"To read is to empower  To empower is to write  To write is to influence  To Influence is to change  To change is to live."  ~ Jane Evershed ~ More than a Tea Party

Library quotes & sayings

Quotes about "books" or "reading"

Reading Quotes

More Resource Links:Quotes about Reading

o http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/reading/ o http://zaadz.com/quotes/topics/reading/

Quotes about Books

o http://www.amusingquotes.com/h/b/Books_1.htm o http://zaadz.com/quotes/topics/books/

Quotes about Bookmarks

o http://www.miragebookmark.ch/wb_bookmark_quotes.htm

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident.I hit a bookmark

. -- Steven Wright

"Life happened because I turned the pages" Alberto Manguel

History of Reading

More Quotes on Reading and http://shubhayan.com/quotes/reading.htm

"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers." ~ Steven Spielberg ~ 

Famous Library & Librarian Quotes & Quotations

Writers on Books & Reading & Creativity

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,

it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." Elizabeth Hardwick 

"Books do furnish a room." Anthony Powell 

Quotes to inspire - and motivate - Books & Reading Inspiring Quotes - about BOOKS http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_booksandreading.html

"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."  Jo Godwin

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."  Frank Zappa

"A library should be like a pair of open arms."  Roger Rosenblatt  

Famous Library and Librarian Quotes & Quotations http://www.useful-information.info/quotations/library_quotes.html

Quotes to inspire and motivate - Libraries Inspiring Quotes - about LIBRARIES

ALA Quotable quotes about Libraries

Jewish quotations about books and reading Quotes - Books & Reading

ALL THE "COOL QUOTES" FROM EX LIBRIS ExLibris is the weekly ezine for Library folks, by Marylaine Block

From IFLA - quotes about Librarians and Libraries Humorous Quotes

Library Juice Collected Quotes of the Week

The Laughing Librarians Quotes for Librarian EMail Signature Files

A Collection of Librarian Quotations http://www.angelfire.com/tx/StatBook/libquot2.html

Visit my Library Humor Resources Page Some Humor WebSites may have "Quotes" 

LitQuotes Excerpt quoted from website: If you love literature or quotations this is the place for you!   This site features literary quotes from the great works of literature.  http://www.litquotes.com/

Quotes on reading, education or literacy  http://www.oregonliteracy.org/features/remarks.shtml

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.  The human mind is our fundamental resource." John F. Kennedy

"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." Mark Twain 

Book - with quotations The Librarian's Companion by Vladimir F. Wertsman Hardcover - 248 pages 2nd edition,  Greenwood Publishing Group;  ISBN: 0313299757 Barnes & Noble - Price: $65.00 Book Description The first edition of this work, which was included in Eugene Sheehy's  Guide to Reference Books (10th ed.), became an indispensable  snapshot of the state of librarianship and publishing around the world.  This revised edition, an update and expansion of the original volume,  offers almost 1,000 entries compared to the 644 entries of the first edition. Included are entries detailing the book trade in individual countries,  biographical profiles, quotations about books and librarianship,  and representations of book people in fiction and postage stamps.  This revised edition also provides much new information on topics  such as Latin terminology, job search strategies, and awards and grants. 

"I like being around books. It makes me feel civilized.  The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." ~ Tom Clancy ~

The Quotable Book Lover ed. by Ben Jacobs & Helena Hjalmarsson  ISBN 1-55821-882-3 Quoted from Library Journal V. 124 no. 14 "Library staff and Administrators might want to scan the  book for quotations to use in promotional literature,  for funding appeals,on library bookmarks, screensavers or web sites...." Less than $20 at Barnes & Noble Great Gift Idea - for "Your" Library, FROM YOU!

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Excerpt quoted from website A Curse on Book Thieves  http://www.litterascripta.com/bibliomania/curses.shtml It was traditional, particularly before the invention of the printing press when books were all hand written manuscripts, to letter a curse into the book to prevent theft. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked very well, as the books also had to be chained into place. Even chains had limited effect. Witness the many ancient libraries where there are still chains in place -- but no books.  Read the curses

Literature, libertines and Lenin's wife: famous people and libraries Looking at famous people as librarians http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/papers/famouslb.htm

On These Walls - Inscriptions & Quotations in the buildings of The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/history.html

MANIFESTO OF AVANT-GARDE LIBRARIANSHIP http://susanthelibrarian.tripod.com/manifesto.htm

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Quote of the DayYou get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey S. Firestone more Famous Quotes

Funny Quote of the DayLaugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess more Famous Quotes

Nature Quote of the DayThe mountains are calling and I must go.

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Art Quote of the DayEven if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Bugs Baer (1886-1969) U.S. journalist, In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991. 

.. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries would not groan beneath the weight of dusty tomes more voluminous than luminous. Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) English socialite, writer "The Confessions of an Elderly Lady," 1838. 

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I have always imagined that Paradise  will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine poet, short-story writer In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988. 

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett (1930-____) U.S. business executive In "Washington Post." 

I learned 3 important things in college to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep any time given a horizontal surface and 15 minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule. Agnes George DeMille (1905-____) U.S. dancer, choreographer "Dance to the Piper," 1952. 

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. clergyman In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994. 

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. Germaine Greer (1939-____) "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You," "Still in Melbourne, January 1987," 1989. 

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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground. Alex Haley (1921-1992) U.S. novelist, journalist "We must honor our Ancestors," in "Ebony," Aug 1986. 

The great British Library --  one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. Washington Irving (1783-1859) U.S. short-story writer, essayist "The Sketch-Book," "The Art of Book-Making," 1819-20. 

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Canadian author, In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991. 

My Alma mater was books, a good library I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. political activist "Autobiograhy of Malcolm X." 

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Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. Louis Nizer (1902-1994) English lawyer In "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations," by James B. Simpson, 1988. 

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots? Moslih Eddin Saadi (1184-1291) Persian poet In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995. 

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher "Parerga and Paralipomena," vol. 2, ch. 22, sct. 257, 1851. 

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Marie de Sevigne (1626-1696) French diarist "Letters of Madame de Sevigne  to Her Daughter and Friends," 1811. 

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Even in life [Sinclair Lewis] was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies  in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts. . . Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) U.S. journalist, writer "The Boy from Sauk Center," Atlantic, Nov 1960. 

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Lily Tomlin (1939-____) U.S. actress, comedienne In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994. 

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) U.S. historian "Practising History," "The Houses of Research," 1981.

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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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou

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

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Mohandas Gandhi

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. John Wooden

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

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

How well he's read, to reason against reading! William Shakespeare

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. Will Rogers

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. Rodney Dangerfield

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. Charles de Gaulle

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. James Madison

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Alexis de Tocqueville

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read

ours. John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. Harry S. Truman

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. Dave Barry

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. Mike Tyson

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. Mike Tyson

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Gilbert K. Chesterton

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? Adam Sandler

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. Babe Ruth

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. Isaac Asimov

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. W. E. B. Du Bois

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject. Maimonides

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Robert Byrne

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem

A book worth reading is worth buying. John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. John Ruskin

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. Jimmy Buffett

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy BuffettI have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. Dean Koontz

I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Marilyn vos Savant

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. Marilyn vos Savant

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James Joyce

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. James Joyce

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. Robert Benchley

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. William Penn

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Ho Chi Minh

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. Mick Jagger

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. Larry David

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. Shel Silverstein

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

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. Miguel de Cervantes

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. David Viscott

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. Franklin P. Jones

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. Christina Aguilera

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. Mortimer AdlerStephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. Anne Rice

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. Vladimir Nabokov

Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

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

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. Dorothy Day

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

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

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout. Jo Brand

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

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

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Raymond Chandler

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. Mary Oliver

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. Nicholas Sparks

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. Keanu Reeves

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Alicia Keys

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. Lynn Abbey

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving BabbittReading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Edith Sitwell

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. William Shatner

I don't want little kids reading my comics. Jhonen Vasquez

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. Jhonen Vasquez

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Quentin Crisp

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. Carrie Underwood

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jacques Derrida

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. Irvine Welsh

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. Edwin Louis Cole

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. Moliere

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Pablo Neruda

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. Pierre Trudeau

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. Samuel Butler

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. M. H. AbramsPeople who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book. Louie Anderson

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Lord Chesterfield

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Lord Chesterfield

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. Daniel J. Boorstin

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Igor Stravinsky

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. Jimmy Fallon

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. Wole Soyinka

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Philip Pullman

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place. Francis Crick

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Jackson Browne

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. Marilyn Hacker

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. Marilyn Hacker

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books,

because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment. Tom Felton

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. Bill Murray

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. Harvey Milk

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. Stephen Ambrose

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. Bobby Orr

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna

Reading is important. John Garfield

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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. Naguib Mahfouz

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. Naguib Mahfouz

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Naguib Mahfouz

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. Thom Yorke

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. Luciano Pavarotti

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. Jose Saramago

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't. Elle Macpherson

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors. Elle Macpherson

What is reading, but silent conversation. Charles Lamb

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Edvard Munch

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. Edward Gibbon

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

Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk. John Leguizamo

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends. Steve Nash

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. Jonathan Davis

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. Joan Jett

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau

Hard writing makes easy reading. Wallace Stegner

We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting. Rupert Grint

The end of reading is not more books but more life. Holbrook Jackson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. Peter Ustinov

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about. Lawrence Taylor

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. Beverly Cleary

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. Beverly Cleary

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Beverly Cleary

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. Ursula K. Le Guin

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. Angela Carter

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. Amy Tan

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. Chuck Jones

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. Jonathan Kozol

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. Christopher Morley

I'm good at reading people. Al Alvarez

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

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. Robertson Davies

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. Robertson Davies

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. Rex StoutI've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. Oscar Levant

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul

I recommend the art of slow reading. Amos Oz

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. Oscar Levant

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. Marcus Fabius Quintilian

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Clarence Day

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

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. Mason Cooley

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly. Liam Neeson

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote. Mason Cooley

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. Nicholson Baker

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. Richard Steele

I enjoyed reading as a child. Goh C. Tong

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. Gary Oldman

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. Robert Rauschenberg

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. Don Marquis

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Samuel Richardson

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. Guillermo Cabrera InfanteBetween 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. Bob Edwards

Reading is my greatest luxury. Louise Brown

Reading should be a repeat performance. John Barton

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. Wilfred Owen

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun. Margaret Haddix

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. Manuel Puig

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. John Sladek

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something. Jay Chiat

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. Richard Darman

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. Manuel Puig

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. Goh Chok Tong

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. William Godwin

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. Jason Mewes

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. Theodore Sturgeon

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

Paul Nurse

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. Rita DoveWhat I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. Diane Wakoski

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. Rita Dove

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. Kevin J. Anderson

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him. Bernhard Langer

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. Rita Dove

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece. Katie Couric

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on. Ken Burns

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. Jenny Agutter

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. Michael Stipe

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. William Godwin

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. Charles Scribner, Jr.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. Alison Bechdel

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. Anita Diament

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. Ken Burns

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. Leslie Fiedler

I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility. Victor Garber

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. Christian Lous LangeI hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. Gillian Anderson

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. Chris Matthews

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. Marlee Matlin

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. Penelope Lively

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. Donna Tartt

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. Joshua Lederberg

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. Chaim Potok

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. Taryn Manning

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. Ryszard Kapuscinski

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. Russell Banks

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. John McCarthy

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever. Ron Silver

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. Nathalie Sarraute

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

James Earl Jones

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. David Amram

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. Griffin Dunne

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. Chester BrownWhen I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor. David Antin

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. John Nelson Darby

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. Hugh Mackay

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But

as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. Ron Silver

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. Maggie Gallagher

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. Clifford Geertz

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Joan D. Vinge

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Chaim Potok

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. Louise Brown

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again. Treat Williams

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. Diane Wakoski

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. George Muller

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. Jean M. Auel

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. Bob Ney

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. Margaret Mahy

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. Christopher Darden

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. Harry Mathews

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist. Douglass North

Reading Quotes

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. View quotes by Heinrich Heine

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.View quotes by M H Abrams

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

View quotes by Babe Ruth

I keep reading between the lies.View quotes by Goodman Ace

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. View quotes by Mary Schmich

He that loves reading has everything within his reachView quotes by William Godwin

What is reading, but silent conversation. View quotes by Charles Lamb

Tact is after all a kind of mind readingView quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. View quotes by Edmund Burke

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. View quotes by Tim Vine

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. View quotes by J K Rowling

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. View quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. (Emblems)View quotes by Francis Quarles

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

View quotes by Norah Jones

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.View quotes by Lord Byron

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprintView quotes by Mark Twain

My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. View quotes by Steve Jobs

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. View quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

I was improvising before I was reading music... I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.View quotes by Pete Fountain

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.View quotes by Sir Arthur Helps

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The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old onesView quotes by Joseph Joubert

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. View quotes by Moses Hadas

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.View quotes by Paul Westerberg

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. View quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Sylvia was reading in her grandfather's library when the bell tinkled.View quotes by Meredith Nicholson

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. View quotes by Harry S Truman

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.View quotes by Luciano Pavarotti

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. View quotes by Joseph Addison

After a while you tend to stop reading the papers because some of the stories about you are so silly.View quotes by Ben Thatcher

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. View quotes by Miguel De Cervantes

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.View quotes by Nasser Hussain

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. View quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell

I am delighted we did it but, at the same time, I can't help but think how close we were to going down. It is sad for Reading and Birmingham - they have all my sympathy tonight.View quotes by Roy Hodgson

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.View quotes by Francis Bacon

You stop reading the newspapers when you became famous you get some very strange things written about you!View quotes by Arianna Richards

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. View quotes by Thornton Wilder

The Cuban revolution had just taken place, and there was a tremendous discussion going on about it [on reading about Marxism]View quotes by Henry Flynt

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

View quotes by Anthony Trollope

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. View quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. View quotes by John Locke

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.View quotes by Rene Descartes

Cheryl [Cole], if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. [on her myspace blog]View quotes by Lily Allen

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. View quotes by John Locke

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. View quotes by Frank Crane

"It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading."View quotes by Mary Archer

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. View quotes by Christopher Morley

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

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.View quotes by Thomas A Kempis

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. View quotes by G M Trevelyan

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors]View quotes by Robert Asprin

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likesView quotes by Nastassja Kinski

I remember reading that black boys aged nine to fourteen suffered really difficult times at school.View quotes by Dave Benson Phillips

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them allView quotes by Francois De Salignac Fenelon

The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy-having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train peering over shoulders, bending down toView quotes by Nigel Andrew

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. [On reading]View quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. View quotes by Leo Durocher

Ske was very cool in Reading. Also, the first band I was in played that tune and I had to learn it. I still think the Skatalites are great [Phoenix City]View quotes by Andy Mackay

I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.View quotes by Leeann Tweeden

I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.View quotes by Mandy Moore

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. View quotes by Ezra Pound

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. View quotes by Horace Mann

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slavesView quotes by Claude Arien Helvetius

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. View quotes by John Dewey

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. View quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I've been brought in for the things I can do, and that includes bringing people together rather than splitting them apart. I'm not too worried about what Will Carling thinks. His comment was almost so irrelevant as not to be worth readingView quotes by Lawrence Dallaglio

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions. View quotes by Andre Maurois

Daddy is reading shakespeare sonnets to the blind and mummy's playing shakespeare to the lepers.View quotes by Anne Cason

I am ashamed. I am shocked at the way we played. We played like a bunch of drunks [on losing 6-0 to Reading!]View quotes by Yossi Benayoun

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers. View quotes by Sarah Jessica Parker

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.View quotes by Arthur Christiansen

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.View quotes by Amy Grant

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do. I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. Reading a novel was like doing a show.View quotes by Heather Donahue

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. View quotes by Igor Stravinsky

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.View quotes by James Agate

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.View quotes by Cynthia Heimel

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.View quotes by Benjamin Franklin

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. View quotes by Thomas Merton

I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.View quotes by Paul McKenna

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. [Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the Chapter 'Of Reading and Writing']View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nationsView quotes by Henry Giles

On her relationship with Kym Marsh: 'Contrary to what everyone thinks, there had never been this almighty fight, half of me wishes there had been because then we could have made up. Instead we were both just reading the stories in the press, which weren't true, and filling in the gaps ourselves. You're bound to get it wrong - and we did. Kym said, 'Well I heard you said this' and I said, 'Well I heard you said this' and then we both burst out laughing because all of it was so made up'.View quotes by Myleene Klass

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. View quotes by Mary McCarthy

It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:

1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.

2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.

3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.

5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. - Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.View quotes by Benjamin Rush

I'm horrified,' he begins slowly 'after reading a press release from a hotel in Scotland that went public in announcing the fact that they're doing a deep-fried sandwich full of Nutella. I mean, Christ! Seventy-five per cent of my staff are French. They look at me like I'm some sort of twat that my Scottish brothers are launching two slices of bread with a fucking inch of Nutella between them, battered and deep fat fried. Now what the fuck is this country coming to? What are we doing to ourselves? That has to be abolished. Here we are, progressing tenfold, buying the right bread, real croissants, we're making fresh muesli and we understand what a great cup of coffee is. And then some idiot brings out a deep-fried chocolate sandwich. I want to find the bastard that put that idea together. I've got the most amazing charcoal grill in my new kitchen. I'm going to sit his butt on it and criss-cross my name on his bloody arse cheeks to remind him. Every time he wakes up in the morning he can gawp at his arse. Is he fucking stupid? When these things hit France, the French just have a field day laughing at us. So I'm looking for that scumbag. I'm going to fucking grill his arse. Brand him with a hot iron like a little calf or a lamb. I'm going to put Ramsayfied on his butt, so every time he wakes up in the morning, he thinks 'Fuck! I shouldn't have done that!''

Why I Love Reading Inspirational Life Quotes By Manish Kapoor

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