Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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What is the moral? Who rides may read.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

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It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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