Reading Books Quotes - Page 11

• A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• I pity those who have no taste for reading.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Taste

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• Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

  Chris Colfer

  Memories, Growing Up, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

  Douglass North

  War, Book, Reading

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• I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

  Thomas Perry

  Book, Reading, Trying

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

  Paul Mazursky

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

  William Godwin

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.31

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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

  Eye, Poetry, Ears

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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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 read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Terry Pratchett: 'If I'd known what a progressive brain disease could do for your PR profile I may have had one earlier'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2008.

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The book you don't read won't help.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Book, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 30, 2017

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.396, Courier Corporation

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• Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Reading, Tables

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.291, Macmillan

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• I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

  Liam Neeson

  Book, Reading, Atheism

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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

  Moving, Reading, Effort

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Luzhin Defense”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  Barry Goldwater

  Marriage, History, Wife

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• Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Uneducated

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.142

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• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  Brad Henry

  Education, Reading, Democracy

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