Reading Books Quotes - Page 14

• Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

  John Herschel

  Book, Reading, World

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Reading, Biographies

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

  Amy Plum

  Lying, Book, Reading

  Amy Plum (2012). “Until I Die”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Smart, Adults, Enough

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• I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Reading, Years

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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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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: feathertale.com

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• I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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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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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”, p.62

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

  Lynn Abbey

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Reading, Book Reading

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

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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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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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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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