Joy Of Reading Quotes - Page 2

• One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Reading, Joy

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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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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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A home without books is a body without soul.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Philosophical, Home

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  James Patterson

  Children, Believe, Book

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Imagination, Joy

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2016

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

  Jeremy Northam

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

  Ann Landers

  Book, Reading, Successful

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

  Stephen Mangan

  Reading, Book, Character

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

  Rubem Alves

  Reading, Order, Joy

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