~ Books and Reading Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Arthur Balfour

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Frank Davies

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

Marcel Proust

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

Patrick Dennis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

Daniel J. Boorstin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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[highlight-text]All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Ernest Hemingway

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[highlight-text]As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye.

John Milton