Book Reading Quotes - Page 9

• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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• There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

  Mary Butts

  Book, Reading, Two

  Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Reading

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.110, Penguin

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• This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

  Sojourner Truth

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.117, Penguin

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• I love a garden and a book.

  Eliza Lucas

  Book, Reading, Garden

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• More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

  M.J. Rose

  Book, Reading, Avid

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• Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

  Alice Walker

  Book, Reading, World

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• People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Book, Reading

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Reading, Book

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• Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press

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• Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

  Charles McGrath

  Book, Reading, Culture

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• Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

  Harry Golden

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• I grew up kissing books and bread.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Kissing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Book, Reading

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• From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Reading, Bedtime

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

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• I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Believe

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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

  William Ralph Inge

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

  Celine Dion

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

  Paris Hilton

  Book, Reading, Sin

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Boredom

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.125, RosettaBooks

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