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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly. -- Virginia Woolf
I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time. -- Jim Gaffigan
The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. -- Joy Fielding
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. -- Ramakrishna
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. -- Kevin Wilson
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. -- Jupiter Hammon
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. -- Vir Das
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. -- Edward St Aubyn
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' -- Vikram Seth
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. -- Manuel Puig
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. -- Olly Murs
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. -- Kevin Wilson
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. -- Lynn Abbey
I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row. -- Julia Glass
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. -- Avi Arad
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. -- LZ Granderson
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books. -- Lois Lowry
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. -- Chris Abani
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too. -- James Patterson
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. -- Cassandra Clare
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Kraus
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not -- Jim Rohn
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. -- Bill Vaughan
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. -- Thomas Ehrlich
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. -- Seneca the Younger
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. -- Gary D. Schmidt
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. -- Jarod Kintz
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books. -- Italo Calvino
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. -- Richard Baxter
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) -- Neil Gaiman
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay. -- Joan Erikson
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them. -- Stephen Dobyns
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading. -- Rikki Ducornet
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up. -- Lucia Puenzo
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays. -- Jonathan Franzen
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. -- Swami Vivekananda

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