Book Quotes About Reading & Ideas – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Robertson Davies

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Emma Bonino

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

John Le Carre

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Lafcadio Hearn

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

John Barton

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Lloyd Alexander

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

George Henry Lewes

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Chuck Palahniuk

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

John McCarthy

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Terry Southern

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Gustave Flaubert

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Chuck Jones

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Mark Haddon

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Nicolas Roeg

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Anna Quindlen

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

John Sergeant Wise

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Orhan Pamuk

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

Sue Grafton

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Bruce Jackson

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Mary Oliver

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Alfred North Whitehead

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

David Lloyd

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Jeanette Winterson

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Mark Haddon

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Bernard Baruch