Reading Books Quotes - Page 12

• Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.79, Penguin

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• First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Taken

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Independent Bookstores, Reading For Kids

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

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• Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Reading, Offended

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, 2001.

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• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

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• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  Bruce Jenner

  Reading, Kids, Important

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

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Grew Up, Mark

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• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  Harold Bloom

  Falling In Love, Real, Reading

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss in The Paris Review, Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

  Theodore Parker

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man".

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• I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, Reading, Parent

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• I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Awards

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• That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

  David Amram

  Book, Reading, Creating

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• I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

  Lee Child

  Book, Reading, Airplane

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• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  John Foster

  Book, Reading, Order

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