Book reading Quotes · Page 3

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance…

— Natalie Babbitt

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Marshall McLuhan

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,…

— Ray Bradbury

“There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”

— Django Wexler

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author…

— Ann Patchett

I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your…

— Fay Weldon

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those…

— Henry David Thoreau

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

— Luis Walter Alvarez

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

— Seth Godin

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

— Kathleen Norris

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

I love a garden and a book.

— Anonymous

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Books succeed; and lives fail.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of…

— James Carroll

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

— Richard de Bury

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.…

— Hannah More

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius