Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

I'm wondering what to read next. — Roald Dahl
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. — Neil Gaiman
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel de Montaigne
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. — Joseph Joubert
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the… — Henry David Thoreau
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.… — Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. — Mark Twain

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