Reading Quotes - Page 10

• A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

  Jackie French

  Inspirational, Change, Children

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

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

  George Orwell

  Country, Real, Book

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Men, Literature

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• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Force, Seems

  Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.330

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• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Space, Enabling

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Children, Thinking

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.87

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Forever, Dominion

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• Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Modern

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• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Book, Knowing, World

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• We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Kids, Needs, Flats

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reflection

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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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, Thinking, Library

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• In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mind, Facts, Playgrounds

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Literature, Conversation

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Wonderful

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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  There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Learning, Cowboy

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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• Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

  Bill Gates

  Digital, Fantastic, Over It

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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• Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Literature, Praise

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Reader

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• Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Inspirational, Book, Order

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