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Quotes about books - reading
Books are not men and yet they stay alive. (Adams Dawn)
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. (Adams Dawn)
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command. (Adams Dawn)
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Adams Dawn)
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. (Adams Dawn)
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. (Adams Dawn)
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. (Adams Dawn)
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use. (Adams Dawn)
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is. (Adams Dawn)
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. (Adams Dawn)
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Adams Dawn)
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. (Adams Dawn)
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. (Adams Dawn)
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. (Adams Dawn)
Books succeed, and lives fail. (Adams Dawn)
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream. (Adams Dawn)
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need. (Adams Dawn)
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. (Adams Dawn)
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. (Adams Dawn)
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. (Adams Dawn)
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you. (Adams Dawn)
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. (Adams Dawn)
Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension. (Adams Dawn)
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. (Adams Dawn)
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. (Adams Dawn)
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