Reading Books Quotes - Page 6

• The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dream, Book

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• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Reading, Book, Giving

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• Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Fun, Reading, Book

  "Exclusive Chloe Grace Moretz Interview". Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,
  wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only
  to manslaughter and bawdry.

  Roger Ascham

  Father, Book, Reading

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Book, Reading, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

  Victoria Chang

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences.

  William Styron

  Book, Should, Inspirational Reading

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

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• Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

  Amy Plum

  Lying, Book, Reading

  Amy Plum (2012). “Until I Die”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Reading, Biographies

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• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Children, Hate, Book

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• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Home

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• I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• I spent my life in the library reading books.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Library

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  Harold Bloom

  Falling In Love, Real, Reading

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss in The Paris Review, Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Grew Up, Mark

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• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  Bruce Jenner

  Reading, Kids, Important

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

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• I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Book, Reading, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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