Reading Books Quotes - Page 15

• Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Woods

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Funny Things

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• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Book

  "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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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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• 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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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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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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• 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'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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• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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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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• The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Reading, People

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• Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

  Chris Matthews

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 13, 2009.

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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've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Roy Wood

  Music, Book, Reading

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• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  M. H. Abrams

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Reading, Bisexual

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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• What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

  Charlie Trotter

  Book, Reading, Okay

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• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

  Tony Hillerman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Reading

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• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Book, Reading, Careers

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• You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

  William Lyon Phelps

  New York, Book, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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