Books And Reading Quotes - Page 8

• How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

  John Burroughs

  Book, Reading, Doe

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reading, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.7, Grove Press

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• The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

  Maimonides

  Book, Reading, Men

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc

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• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

  Mohammed Dib

  Reading, Book, Speakers

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• Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

  LeVar Burton

  Book, Reading, Ipads

  "Levar Burton launches the "Next generation" reading rainbow app... And returns to 'community'!" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

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