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Reading Books Quotes (page 2)

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell Epictetus
What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually. Stephenie Meyer
Paul Theroux quote: "People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books."
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Paul Theroux
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Lord Chesterfield
Michael Caine quote: "I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I..."
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. Michael Caine
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. John Sayles
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break. Berenice Bejo
You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. J. D. Salinger
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the..."
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. Zora Neale Hurston
Jodi Picoult quote: "When she wanted to escape her life, she read books"
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books Jodi Picoult
You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books. Joan Didion
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. C. S. Lewis
Annie Dillard quote: "She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live."
She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. Annie Dillard
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation. but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books but they almost never talk.(pg114) Paulo Coelho
We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me... Elizabeth Gilbert

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