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Books Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading…
- The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about…
- All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
- The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
- If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will…
- Books are absent teachers.
- If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a…
- In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through…
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get…
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- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine