"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

Joineriana on books - reading
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"No furniture is so charming as books."

Smith, Sydney on books - reading   

"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."

Heine, Heinrich on censorship
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"A book should be luminous not voluminous."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on writers and writing
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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

Mailer, Norman on writers and writing
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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read."

Burnett, Leo on advertising
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."

Wilde, Oscar on travel   

"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

Kempis, Thomas on books - reading
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Churchill, Winston on wordiness
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"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me."

Lamb, Charles on books - reading   

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."

Mccosh on books - reading
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"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

Levant, Oscar on selfishness
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"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."

Joubert, Joseph on books - reading   

"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on libraries
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"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."

Harington, John on books - reading
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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading   

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Belloc, Hilaire on books - reading
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"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."

Edwards, Tryon on books - reading
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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Lee, Harper on books - reading
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"Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have."

Bennett, Alan on books - classics
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"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read."

Mencken, H. L. on books - reading
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

McKenna, Richard on books - reading
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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Carter, Angela on books - reading
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Twain, Mark on health
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"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."

Collins, Jackie on criticism   

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."

Wolfe, Thomas on books - reading
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"A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it."

Styron, William on books - reading   

"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."

Gibbon, Edward on books - reading   

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

Brougham, Lord Henry P. on books - reading
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"I read part of it all the way through."

Goldwyn, Samuel on books - reading   

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

Kieran, John on books - reading
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