Reading Books Quotes - Page 12

• Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.106, Routledge

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• My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

  Tony Judt

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  Harper Lee

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Reading

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.148, Canongate Books

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Letters, Folks

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

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

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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 in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

  Moliere

  Book, Reading, Done

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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 will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

  Jose Saramago

  Reading, Book, Home

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

  Bernard Williams

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  Earl Wilson

  Doctors, Handwriting, May

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• The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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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

  Mean, Poetry, Body

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, Reading

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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