Books - Reading Quotes
182 quotations about Books - Reading
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
A book is the only immortality.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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