Best Reading Books Lines
205 Reading Books quotes by 182 unique authors
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the…
— Joan Jett
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
— James Earl Jones
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
— James Joyce
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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible…
— Louis L'Amour
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will…
— Horace Mann
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing…
— Moliere
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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the…
— Max Muller
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people…
— Bill Murray
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
— Liam Neeson
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but…
— Pablo Neruda
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
— Octavio Paz
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who…
— Terry Pratchett
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
— William Safire
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the…
— Jose Saramago
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
— Zadie Smith
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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
— Amy Tan
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