Book Readers Quotes

• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Book, Reading

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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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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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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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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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Sea, Library

  Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 Jan. 1904

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Reading, Library

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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