Reading Quotes - Page 11

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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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, Thinking

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• That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Travel, Moving, Book

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, September, 2003.

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• I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

  Leo Lionni

  Change, Children, Book

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• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

  Jane Smiley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Anchor

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• Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

  Jane Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

  William Styron

  Loneliness, Library, Being Lonely

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• Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Thinking, Library

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Real Talk

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

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• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Men, Tasks

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (entry for 14 July 1763)

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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

  Alice Walker

  Book, World, Hard

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• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Teacher, Attitude

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

  Jean M. Auel

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Jean M. Auel (2011). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (Enhanced Edition): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.681, Bantam Dell

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Library, Entertainment

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

  Bernard Williams

  Sports, Book, Long

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Giving, Literacy

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• Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Book, Should

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• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Travel, Book, Other Worlds

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Book, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

  Rupert Brooke

  Funny, Book, Long

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• 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Wonderland, Use

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

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• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

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