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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I love the way you look when reading a book - content and dreamy, off in another world.
— Rachel Cohn
Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration.
— Chandan Sharma
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
— Henry David Thoreau
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
— Nicholson Baker
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
What you read when you don't have to ...
— Oscar Wilde
He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.
— Alden Bell
I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.
— Erri De Luca
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
— Holbrook Jackson
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
— Meles Zenawi
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
— Stephen Chbosky
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.
- The Trouble With Reading — William Stafford
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
— Deb Caletti
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
— Dawn Addams
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
— Guy Davenport
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
— Victor Borge
Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings
— Syed Sohail Ahmed
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
— Steven Wright
To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
— H.L. Stephens
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
— Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
— Douglas Booth
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9
— Kenny Pieper
She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.
— Sarah Mayberry
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
— Henny Youngman
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.
— Veronica Henry
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
— J.D. Salinger
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
— William Maxwell
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
— Stanley Baldwin
I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.
— Lauren Conrad
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
— Ezra Pound
Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
— Stephen Chbosky
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
— Paulo Coelho
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
— Robertson Davies
If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.
— Jesse Andrews
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
— Michel De Montaigne
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
— William Butler Yeats
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
— Ashwin Sanghi
There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
— Veronica Roth
Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious wayto feel alive. — V.C. Andrews
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
— Cassandra Clare
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H.L. Mencken
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
— William Gaddis
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
— Craig Finn
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
— B.R. Myers
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
— Sophie Divry
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
— Maxim Gorky
Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.
— Serina Hartwell
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Besides, if they continued where they left off, Faith would finish reading the book and Alec would be snoring next to her.
— Kelly Moran
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
— Daniel Handler
The best gift you can give me is a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.
— Mary Pope Osborne
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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
— Thomas Carlyle
I love a garden and a book.
— Eliza Lucas
