Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Lord Chesterfield

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Beverly Cleary

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

William Hazlitt

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Edward Gibbon

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Robert B. Parker

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Salman Rushdie

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Evelyn Waugh

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Alfred de Vigny

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

George Murray

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

Ken Thompson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Donald Norman

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

William Feather

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Vladimir Nabokov

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Wislawa Szymborska

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Danielle Steel

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Antonio Tabucchi

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Carol Oates

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Irwin Shaw

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

Tim LaHaye

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

Salman Rushdie

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

John Henry Newman

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

William Hazlitt

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

Stephen Ambrose

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards