Books And Reading Quotes

57 quotes by 55 authors

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
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
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
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust
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
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
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
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
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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