Books And Reading Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
— Nick Cave
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
— Adriana Trigiani
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
— Henry David Thoreau
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
— W.C. Fields
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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
— Michel de Montaigne
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
— Marcel Proust
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Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought…
— Langston Hughes
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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively)…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but…
— Jesse Jackson
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
— William Hazlitt
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How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit…
— John Burroughs
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression…
— Charles Kuralt
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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