Reading Books Quotes

205 quotes by 182 authors

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books,… — George Washington Carver
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry
All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book,… — Dave Barry
First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin… — Dave Barry
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They… — Dave Barry
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never… — Groucho Marx
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx

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