Reading Quotes - Page 2

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

What is reading but silent conversation?

Walter Savage Landor

You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

Herbert Asquith

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Literature is news that stays news.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

Laws die books never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.

Phillip Babcock Gove

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

Anonymous

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Ernest Hemingway

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Richard de Bury

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on appreciation causes you to linger.

William Gerhardie

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Benjamin Disraeli

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.

Phillip Babcock Gove

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

Robert Burchfield

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.

Robin S. Sharma

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Gustave Flaubert

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd mounded in crooksLibraries beckonAnd bookstores inviteBut book-filled rooms welcomeUs back home at night!

All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

Rawi Hage

She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the letters danced like insects and she was groggy next day at work. But still she'd sneak away for lunchtime trysts, her eager fingers fumbling for the bookmark.

Cath Staincliffe

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish.

Konstantinos Staikos

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Novalis

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Theodore Roosevelt

Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed.

Sarah Addison Allen

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark. Each tweet erases its predecessor.

It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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