Reading Quotes

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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. — Miguel de Cervantes
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men… — Oswald Chambers
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. — Raymond Chandler
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past… — William Ellery Channing
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Lord Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,… — Lord Chesterfield
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be… — Lee Child
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. — Winston Churchill
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can… — John Henrik Clarke
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though… — Beverly Cleary
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. — Leonard Cohen

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