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Quote Source Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. John Adams Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to Abigail Adams with diligence. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Louisa May Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. Amos Bronson Alcott The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammed Ali Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen Reading is for me a stimulus for reflection, a source of pleasure, and a professional Corinne A. Allen imperative. -The Education foundation Reading isn’t fun; it’s indispensable. Woody Allen Books - medicine for the soul. Anonymous If you don’t like the news, go and make your own. Anonymous There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Aristotle Library Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise Richard Armour their minds. Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Auden A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W. H. Auden The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page. St. Augustine of Hippo Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Bacon Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find Francis Bacon talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Proofreading is more effective after publication. Eric Baker The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern J. M. Barrie times; sometimes one forgets which it is. Where would I be without the tools of my trade and a good book to read at night? Thomas Bartholin A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a Henry Ward Beecher counselor, a multitude of counselors. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities Henry Ward Beecher of life. The more we read, the more prepared we are in today's society. John M. Belk -Belk Brothers Company Books are not men and yet they stay alive. Steven Vincent Benet Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. Thomas Berger Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings An ordinary man can … surround himself with two thousand books … and Augustine Birrell thenceforward have at least one place in the world where it is possible to be happy. Libraries are not made, they grow. Augustine Birrell I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon Catherine Drinker Bowen the right word. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading Ray Bradbury them. You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless Ray Bradbury you are raised and live in a library every day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like Ray Bradbury perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads … may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. Without libraries, what do we have? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and Gwendolyn Brooks clout, and drumbeats on the air. Books we must have though we lack bread. Alice Williams Brotherton Books are men of higher stature, And the only men that speak aloud for future times Elizabeth Barrett Browning to hear. If not in art, where is there room for sharing the hurts of the world, and spreading Steven Brust them out a little and so take some of the sting away? If an artist can't do it, no one can. If an artist can't do it, he's no artist. Surrounded by stories Surreal and sublime I fell in love in the library Once upon a Jimmy Buffett time. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Critics! . those cut-throat bandits in the path of fame. Robert Burns The oldest books are only just out to those who haven't read them. Samuel Butler Truth is always strange Lord Byron I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company Lord Byron of my lamp and my library. All literature is gossip. Truman Capote The true university these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, Andrew Carnegie this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing. Wm. Ellery Channing Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its Chateaubriand glory. To read and drive the night away. Geoffrey Chaucer A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. Chinese Proverb One kind word can warm three winter months. Chinese Proverb A book is the only immortality. Rufus Choate If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe Noam Chomsky in it at all. There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar Kate Chopin upon the water. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill A room without books is as a body without a soul. Cicero The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference Tom Clancy between lightning and the lightning bug. The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read. Tom Clancy To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of Kenneth Clark time in human life. Tact consists of knowing how to go too far. Jean Cocteau The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau I want to … read poems filled with terror and music that changes laws and lives. Leonard Cohen Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier To know what is right and not to do it is the worse cowardice. Confucius Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Joseph Conrad America’s greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon Terrence Cooke each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to Norman Cousins life. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of Jim Critchfield stuff. Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an Walter Cronkite ignorant nation. Reading has been a meaningful activity in our family. William B. S. Culp, Jr. I chose a profession, journalism, that demanded a love of discovering new things Mary C. Curtis and a love of reading. -The Charlotte Observer Reading provides us with a view out our window of the world, and the world Fred E. Dabney II beyond. -Royal Insurance He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. Danish Proverb The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our Clarence Darrow children. A truly great book should be read in youth, once again in maturity and once more in Robertson Davies old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Experience is the universal mother of sciences. Miguel de Cervantes The book is man's best invention so far. Carolina Maria de Jesus I know of but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. Charles de Secondat When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Marie de Sevigne Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson He ate and drank the precious Words, His Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that Emily Dickinson he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust. A word is dead, When it is said, Some say.