Book Reading Quotes

136 Book Reading quotes by 108 unique authors

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books. — Maxim Gorky
We never tire of the friendships we form with books. — Charles Dickens
I don't take drugs, I take books. — Ingeborg Bachmann
You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books. — Grenville Kleiser
Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will. — Grenville Kleiser
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only… — Robert Pattinson
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
I even love the smell of books. — Adriana Trigiani
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book… — David Pogue
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons,… — Unknown Author
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man. — Holbrook Jackson
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In… — Sherman Alexie
Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too. — Heinrich Heine
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the… — Ray Bradbury
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being… — Po Bronson
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen… — Anne Rice

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