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Short Quotes
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.Short Book
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.Short Book
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.Short Humor Book
Books are a uniquely portable magic.Short Book
My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.Short Humor Book
Books are no more threatened by 'Kindle' than stairs by elevators.Short Analogy Book
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to readShort Book
I read; I travel; I becomeShort
Reading is more efficient when at rest. Audio is more efficient when in motionShort Life lessons
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over AgainShort Book
Do not accept blindly everything that you read; it should meet the tests of your mind.Short Mind
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.Short
The world was hers for the reading.Short Book
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Book Quotes
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.Book
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.Book
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.Book
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.Book
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.Book
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.Book People
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.Book Literature Writing
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.Book
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.Book
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.Book
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.Book
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.Book
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.Book
Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.Book
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.Book Words Literature
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.Book
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.Book
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?Book
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.Book Comfort
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.Book
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.Book
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.Book
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.Book
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read themBook
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Humor Quotes
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.Humor Book
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Humor Laughter Book
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.Humor Book
You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.Humor Book
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.Humor Book
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.Humor Problems Book
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.Humor
Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.Humor
A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.Humor Book
No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material.Humor
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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.Time Writer Writing
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.Wisdom Book People
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.Family Knowledge
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.Life Friends
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.Happiness Inspirational Book
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.Advice Book Literature
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.Habit Book
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.Knowledge Light
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.Memory
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.Writer
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.Experience Book
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.Children Book Literature
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.Inspirational Words Writing
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.Silence Book
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.Inspirational Poetry Smile
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.Joy Learning Book
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.Thought Book
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.Habit
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.Life Love Work Understanding
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.Life Short
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Change Life Book Man
Don't just teach your children to read... Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.Knowledge Children Question Book
Read what you love until you love to read.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.Writer Writing
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.Words Writing
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.Life Time Thinking
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.Life Book
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.Experience Book
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.Love Book
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.Memory Growth Book
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.Knowledge Light Book
He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.
I'm wondering what to read next... I've finished all the children's books.
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.Heart Growth
The smarter you get, the slower you read.
Many people read constantly and yet cannot tell you what they have read. The best way to read a book is to introspect about it. See how it applies to your own life. And learn to discriminate.Life Book People
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.Habit Book Opinion
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.Short Book
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.Beauty Book Words Literature
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.Emotions Book Literature
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 favorite book.Book Literature
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?Book
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.Book
I guess there are never enough books.Short Book
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.Book Literature
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.Book
Don't waste your time on cheap writings.Advice Book
Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.Short Book
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.Understanding
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.Book
So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.Book Literature
"Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?” “I do have a reputation to maintain.” “And what a lovely reputation that is."
Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me."
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. 
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. 
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. 
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. 
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. 
Literature is news that stays news. 
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. 
I read; I travel; I become 
Literature is my Utopia 
Reading is more efficient when at rest. Audio is more efficient when in motion 
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. 
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. 
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. 
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. 
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. 
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. 
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. 
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. 
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. 
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down. 
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. 
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. 
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. 
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. 
Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. 
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. 
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. 
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. 
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? 
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. 
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. 
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. 
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. 
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them 
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. 
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. 
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. 
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. 
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. 
Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. 
No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material. 
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
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.
A good book is an event in my life.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
![When I got [my] library card, that was when my life …](/i/quotes-pictures/7/807-rita-mae-brown-life-library.jpg)
Don't just teach your children to read... Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
Read what you love until you love to read.
If you read one hour, then write two hours, think three hours, and meditate all the time.
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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.
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.
I'm wondering what to read next... I've finished all the children's books.
The smarter you get, the slower you read.
Many people read constantly and yet cannot tell you what they have read. The best way to read a book is to introspect about it. See how it applies to your own life. And learn to discriminate.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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 favorite book.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
Reading does not make you wise, realization does.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.
So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
"Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?” “I do have a reputation to maintain.” “And what a lovely reputation that is."
Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me."