Reading Books Quotes
205 quotes by 182 authors
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
— M H Abrams
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
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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
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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
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
— Jean Cocteau
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
— Oscar Levant
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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
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I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.
— Dave Barry
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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
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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
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I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
— Dave Barry
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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
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This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
— Dorothy Parker
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Reading Books Quotes
182 authors contributed a total of 205 Reading Books Quotes, led by these top contributors: