Book Reading Quotes - Page 6

• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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• I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Children, Book, Reading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

  Roald Dahl

  Hate, Book, Reading

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• Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Book, Reading, Responsibility

  Interview with Rachel Barenblat, www.pifmagazine.com. August 1999.

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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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• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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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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• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

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• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Reading, Buying

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

  Pablo Neruda

  Reading, Learning, Way

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• The book you don't read won't help.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Book, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 30, 2017

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• Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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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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• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Healing, Sleep

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.419, Bantam

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• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  Dust jacket for S. J. Perelman, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). This is described in Show Magazine, Nov. 1961.

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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• Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Book, Learning

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