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Never regret losing time on reading good books -- Kowtham Kumar K
Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. -- Nelson Mandela
Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult. -- Alice Walker
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways. -- Alice Hegan Rice
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. -- Mark Haddon
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. -- Rene Descartes
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. -- Ramakrishna
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. -- Malcolm X
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 like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. -- Maj Sjowall
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. -- David Thewlis
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 started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. -- Haruki Murakami
In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy. -- George Clooney
I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. -- Noah Baumbach
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance. -- Matt Groening
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. -- Richard Russo
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
Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. -- Rick Riordan
I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.' -- Helen Oyeyemi
I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy. -- Shay Mitchell
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. -- John Quincy Adams
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. -- Mas Oyama
My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- Malcolm X
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
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
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time. -- Mark Twain
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. -- Charles Bukowski
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
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. -- Ezra Pound
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. -- Daniel Handler

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