Book Reading Quotes - Page 13

• My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Military, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Book, Reading, Loss

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• The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hate, Book, Reading

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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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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• The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Book, Reading

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

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• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.192

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• Writers do not come out of houses without books.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, House

  "A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

  Coolio

  Book, Reading, School

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• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Reading, Book

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• In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Book, Reading, Names

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.172, Cooper Square Press

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• I even love the smell of books.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  "How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader" By James Patterson, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2011.

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