Book Reading Quotes

136 Book Reading quotes by 108 unique authors

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more… — Samuel Johnson
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is… — Samuel Johnson
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the… — Salman Rushdie
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. — Marshall McLuhan
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,… — Hannah More
Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual — Richard Bach
When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I… — James A. Baldwin
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent… — Margaret Fuller
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — George Bernard Shaw
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's… — William Faulkner
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look… — Raymond Chandler
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… — Lord Chesterfield
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez
A multitude of books distracts the mind. — Socrates
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. — Lynn Redgrave
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author. — Jean de la Bruyere
I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on. — Jewel
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing… — Alberto Manguel

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