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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
— Henry David Thoreau
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
— Groucho Marx
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
— Robert M. Hutchins
For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
— Gustave Flaubert
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
— Margaret Haddix
There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
— Wayne C. Booth
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
— Muna Adnan Naqi
As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.
— Michael Dirda
People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.
— Mark Twain
It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.
— Django Wexler
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.
— Joshua Rogers
We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.
— Antoinette Ingoldsby
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
These people," he had said with his inscrutable smile, "are different from us. They don't care about books and such things.
— Azar Nafisi
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
— Felix J. Palma
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.
— Lauren Hammond
Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
— Gloria Steinem
You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.
— Alan Bradley
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
— James Russell Lowell
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
— Helen Keller
I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.
— Chandan Sharma
I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
— Jen Selinsky
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
— Mortimer J. Adler
I just want to stay away from people and read books.
— John Green
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [ ... ].
— Arlaina Tibensky
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
— Willie Van Peer
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I held up the book - Green Eggs and Ham - and began reading. I smiled; it was one of my favorite books from my childhood.
— Angela Graham
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
— Dorothea Benton Frank
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
— Anne Fadiman
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
— H.L. Mencken
I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.
— Marjane Satrapi
I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.'
— Richelle E. Goodrich
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
— Thomas Wharton
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
— Eraldo Banovac
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
— Gabrielle Dubois
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
All I have learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
— William Shakespeare
Of course. You get everything from books.
— Gregory Maguire
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
— Leo Buscaglia
There so much to learn from a single book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.
— Nicholaa Spencer
And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.
— Libba Bray
On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.
— Laini Taylor
READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary "Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167 — Rodman Philbrick
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
— Leonard Ravenhill
If a book can save - redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane - surely, there must be a God.
— Chila Woychik
Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands
— Larry Moniz
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
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
— Joshua Rogers
From the book:Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
— Deborah Lawrenson
Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.
— David Burr Gerrard
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
— Christopher Koch
I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.
— Natalie C. Anderson
