Quotes about books - reading

"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on books - reading
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"Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery."

Rosenbach, A. S. W. on books - reading   

"Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable."

Rostand, Jean on books - reading   

"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."

Rostand, Jean on books - reading   

"In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed."

Rosten, Leo on books - reading   

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

Rushdie, Salman on books - reading   

"The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared."

Rushdie, Salman on books - reading   

"A book worth reading is worth buying."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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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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"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."

Ruskin, John on books - reading   

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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

Ruskin, John on books - reading   

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"To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."

Ruskin, John on books - reading   

"A library is thought in cold storage."

Samuel, Herbert on books - reading   

"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."

Sandwell, B. K. on books - reading   

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."

Schopenhauer, Arthur 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   

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading   

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading   

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Secondat, Charles de on books - reading   

"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

Seferis, Giorgos on books - reading
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"O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."

Shakespeare, William on books - reading   

"How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?"

Shaw, George Bernard on books - reading   

"Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on books - reading   

"What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books."

Sinyavsky, Andre on books - reading   

"Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - reading   

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - reading
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"No furniture is so charming as books."

Smith, Sydney on books - reading   

"Live always in the best company when you read."

Smith, Sydney on books - reading   

"A multitude of books distracts the mind."

Socrates on books - reading   

"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."

Spielberg, Steven on books - reading   

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch."

Steele, Sir Richard on books - reading
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"A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun."

Steinbeck, John on books - reading   

"The age of the book is almost gone."

Steiner, George on books - reading   

"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."

Stendhal, Henri B. on books - reading   

"Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail."

Sterne, Laurence on books - reading   

"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."

Sterne, Laurence on books - reading