Reading Quotes - Page 16

• The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Book, Lasts

  Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

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• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Past, Thought Provoking

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Hero, Writing

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

  Roger Ebert

  Library Research, Rats, Computer

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Years, Yesterday

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

  Steven Spielberg

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

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• Books may well be the only true magic.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Book, Kids

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• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Book, Thought Provoking, Community

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• Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

  Grace Slick

  Retirement, Two, Literacy

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• I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Henry Miller

  Luxury, Giving, Soul

  "Dear Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus".

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

  Carl Sagan

  Writing, Cosmos, Invention

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

  Samuel Johnson

  Remember, Injury, Weak

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.319

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Fearless, Library

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• Learn as much by writing as by reading.

  Lord Acton

  Spiritual, Writing, Caring

  "Lectures on Modern History". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1906.

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

  William Godwin

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.31

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• I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Passion

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

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• The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Art, Library, Culture

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.163

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• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  Stan Barstow

  World, May, Rate

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• The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Ice, He Man

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  God, Islamic, Book

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• People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

  Li-Young Lee

  Writing, People, Poetry

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