Books - Reading Quotes
182 quotations about Books - Reading
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
I cannot live without books.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
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