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In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.


Maria Semple

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KELLY JONES Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like ...
JAMES PATTERSON It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. LEWIS I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almo...
TANA FRENCH With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture b...
BEVERLY CLEARY The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo...
H. L. MENCKEN The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia...
KARL MARLANTES I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...
C.S. LEWIS The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s h...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT Books are the only things worth stealing.
SULLY TARNISH I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after ...
NIKKI GRIMES Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we b...
NATALIE S. BOBER I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to th...
ANG LEE My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe...
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JACK MA I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to b...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally...
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UFUOMA APOKI I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
ROY KEANE I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN The minute the text-messaging icon went up on my Web site, teens were talking about it on my message...
MEG CABOT My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in...
HOPE JAHREN It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called...
C.S. LEWIS I love reading books that can break my heart.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
CLIFF FADIMAN No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any...
STEPHAN GRELLET Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
FANNIE FLAGG Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU It was worth a wound--it was worth many wounds--to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behi...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou...
MARY POPE OSBORNE I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I cou...
SAM JAEGER I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi...
ANDREA BOCELLI I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...
ISABEL ALLENDE I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t...
ROMAN PAYNE I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth read...
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RAINER MARIA RILKE The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books...
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JOSEPH WILLIAMS I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
ORHAN PAMUK I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, '...
RICK RIORDAN Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle ...
LIN YUTANG Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all ...
ERMA BOMBECK As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all...
ERMA BOMBECK My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still ...
HELMUT SCHMIDT I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
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KELLY MARTIN No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin'...
AVI ARAD I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named...
TONY HAWK Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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DOROTHY FIELDS My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
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DAVID BENIOFF My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.
ERIK LARSON I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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MALCOLM X My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyin...
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MARIA BROOKS We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...
MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h...
MARIA MONTESSORI I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous...
MARIA MONTESSORI Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL