Reading Books Quotes - Page 19

• Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
  One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

  Kabir

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Kabir, “Looking At The Grinding Stones - Dohas (Couplets) I”

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• You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Reading, Character

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• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Art, Reading, Mean

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  Charles Darwin

  Funny, Dull, Insult

  1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.

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• After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Reading, Long

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Harcourt

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• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

  Sarah Zettel

  Inspirational, Dance, Reading

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• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

  Arnold Bennett

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

  Susie Bright

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  Gary Oldman

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Teaching, Illiterate Person

  "The Portrait of a Future Leader" by Anne Loehr, www.wired.com. June 18, 2015.

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• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Achievement, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Reading, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.494, Oxford University Press

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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

  Reading, Editing, Repetition

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• Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

  Maxim Gorky

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Phrases, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Giving, Looks

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

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

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Reading, Writing

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Book, Reading, Media

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. January 3, 2015.

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