Book Reading Quotes

136 quotes by 108 authors

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. — Coolio
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write… — Arthur C. Clarke
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. — Charles Kingsley
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham

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