Book Reading Quotes - Page 9

• stos son los tres recursos mundiales que más escasean en el siglo XXI: la capa de ozono, la selva tropical y las personas deseosas de leer la ficción de otros. Así es, amigos. Por primera vez en la historia escrita, creo, hay muchos más escritores de ficción en la Tierra que lectores de ficción.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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• There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

  Mary Butts

  Book, Reading, Two

  Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Reading

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.110, Penguin

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• This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

  Sojourner Truth

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.117, Penguin

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• I love a garden and a book.

  Eliza Lucas

  Book, Reading, Garden

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• More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

  M.J. Rose

  Book, Reading, Avid

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• Los libros se convirtieron en mi mundo porque el mundo en el que estaba era muy duro.

  Alice Walker

  Book, Reading, World

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• People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Book, Reading

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• Cuando lees con tu hijo, le demuestras que leer es importante, pero también le demuestras que él es importante, que es tan importante para ti que pasarás 20 minutos al día abrazado a él.

  Laura Bush

  Niños, Lectura, Libro

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• Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Libro, Caída, Lectura

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press

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• Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

  Charles McGrath

  Book, Reading, Culture

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• Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

  Harry Golden

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• I grew up kissing books and bread.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Kissing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Libro, Lectura, Mente

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• Las investigaciones nos demuestran que los niños a los que se les lee desde pequeños tienen más probabilidades de empezar a leer ellos mismos a una edad temprana. Tienen más probabilidades de sobresalir en la escuela. Tienen más probabilidades de graduarse en secundaria e ir a la universidad.

  Laura Bush

  Niños, Libro, Lectura

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• Desde la luz de las velas hasta que me acuesto temprano, leo.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Reading, Bedtime

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Algunos libros vienen a mi encuentro, al igual que las personas.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

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• I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Lectura, Libro, Pensamiento

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Believe

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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

  William Ralph Inge

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

  Celine Dion

  Mañana, Lectura, Libro

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• There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

  Paris Hilton

  Book, Reading, Sin

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Boredom

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.125, RosettaBooks

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