Book Reading Quotes - Page 10

• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

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• Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

  Alice Walker

  Book, Reading, World

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• More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

  M.J. Rose

  Book, Reading, Avid

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• When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Reading, Book

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• 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, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Suggestions

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• I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

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• From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Reading, Bedtime

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press

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• I grew up kissing books and bread.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Kissing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

  Harry Golden

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”

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• Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

  Charles McGrath

  Book, Reading, Culture

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• Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Reading, People

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• I don't take drugs, I take books.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Book, Reading, Drug

  Ingeborg Bachmann (1990). “Malina: A Novel”, Holmes & Meier Pub

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• Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Book, Reading, Ready

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

  Elif Batuman

  Meaningful, Struggle, Book

  Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.84, Granta Books

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• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

  David Pogue

  Book, Reading, Successful

  "The Kindle: Good before, better now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Book, Reading

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

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• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.192

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• Writers do not come out of houses without books.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, House

  "A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Tenors

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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