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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

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. — Olly Murs

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

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

Take a good book to bed with you - books do not snore. — Thea Dorn

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. — Jean Rhys

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. — Ellen Kushner

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. — S.A. Tawks

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

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book. — Susan Sontag

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

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream. — Haidy Santos

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

A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation. — Tony Reinke

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler

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

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. — Kevin Wilson

They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books. — Emma Donoghue

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

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan

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

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis

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

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. — Harper Lee

Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read. — Faye Hall

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

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. — Vir Das

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac

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

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. — Erri De Luca

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

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job. — John Berry

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

I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there. — Anonymous

The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them. — Ian Campbell Ross

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up. — Lucia Puenzo

Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books. — Ozzie Cheek

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus

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

There are far more a worst crimes than burning books ... Not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Lemony Snicket

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading. — Rikki Ducornet