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Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
— Wayne C. Booth
And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.
— Roger Lea MacBride
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
— Gina Barreca
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.
— John Steinbeck
A man who does not read miss great wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.
— Walter Mosely
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
— Brandon Mull
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.
— Alan Bradley
Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!
— Balroop Singh
Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.
— Brandon Mull
In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
— Jules Verne
True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
— Oprah Winfrey
Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.
— Jenny Colgan
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
— Cornelia Funke
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
— Kira Hawke
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
— Francois Mauriac
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
— William Hazlitt
The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you're not alone.
— Paula Gruben
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
— David McCullough
I can not imagine a world without books.My world will not be complete with the love for books. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not let reading become a forgotten art
— Carmela Dutra
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
— Italo Calvino
Open books, not legs; blow minds, not guys.
— Trish Jackson
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
— Benjamin Franklin
A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.
— Aman Jassal
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
— Adolf Hitler
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
— David Foster Wallace
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
— A.W. Tozer
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
— Alan Bennett
We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.
— Robert Henri
Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.
— Haidji
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
— Richard Baxter
You're either reading a book or you're not.
— Jonathan Franzen
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
I need to experience books, not just read them.
— Lauren Morrill
she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books.
— Kim Richardson
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel.
— Virginia Woolf
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
— Jeanette Winterson
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.
— Maria Dahvana Headley
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
— Carla H. Krueger
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.
— Ian Campbell Ross
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
— Susan Sontag
Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
— Anonymous
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
— Marilynne Robinson
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
— Lemony Snicket
