Books - Reading Quotes
182 quotations about Books - Reading
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
A wicked book cannot repent.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
The book you don't read won't help.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
A library is thought in cold storage.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Authors on Books - Reading
Dawn Adams
Mortimer J. Adler
Amos Bronson Alcott
American Proverb
St. Thomas Aquinas
Isaac Asimov
W. H. Auden
Richard Bach
Francis Bacon
E.S. Barrett
Stan Barstow
Charles Baudelaire
Henry Ward Beecher
Hilaire Belloc
Stephen Vincent Benet
Aneurin Bevan
Augustine Birrell
Professor Blackie
Ray Bradbury
Joseph Brodsky