Reading Books Quotes - Page 18

• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Book, Reading, Careers

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• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Clarence Day

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Roy Wood

  Music, Book, Reading

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

  William Lyon Phelps

  New York, Book, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Reading, Book, Lambs

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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 would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 14, 2012

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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 a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

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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 number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

  Louis L'Amour

  Motivational, Reading, Numbers

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.25, Bantam

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• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

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• I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, Ordinary

  "IQ84". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2010.

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• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "A little book in C major".

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• The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "A little book in C major".

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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 gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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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 a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

  George Burns

  Funny, Reading, Book

  "The Most of George Burns".

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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

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Reading, Book

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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