Book Reading Quotes - Page 11

• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  Joe Strummer

  Book, Reading, Opposites

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• O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons, perhaps, less worthy of you than your old master. Yet how dear to me are they all! Have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them all in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all!

  Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

  Book, Love You, Reading

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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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• Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

  Maxim Gorky

  Book, Reading, Should

  "Reading is overrated" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Opponents

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

  Moliere

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Books succeed; and lives fail.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Succeed

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

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• Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

  Elias Canetti

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Book, Reading, Kingdoms

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Ifs

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• A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

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• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, People

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Book, Reading, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Reading, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.98, e-artnow

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• Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• I pity those who have no taste for reading.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Taste

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

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