Book Author Pride

Table of Contents

• Love for Books
• Books as a Source of Knowledge
• Books vs. Other Media
• Reading Preferences
• Authors and Writing
• Books and Personal Identity
• Challenges with Reading
• Books and Society
• Books and Personal Growth
• Other

Love for Books

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

No two person, ever read the same book.

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

We don’t simply read books. We become them.

Books as a Source of Knowledge

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you haven't read shine more brightly than those you have, and often reading part of a book will shape your mind more decisively than reading all of it; there is no inherent epistemic superiority to having read a book or not having read it.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

I said, 'Read these books and you don't have to be here.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

I have never written a book that didn’t teach me far more than it taught my reader.

You don’t spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

I’m constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Books vs. Other Media

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I didn’t learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I’m a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

Yes, I don’t read books for entertainment.

I’m not really book-smart.

I don’t read books, but I have friends who do.

I don’t read books much.

The funny thing is, I’m not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I’m the smartest person I know and I’ve never read a book in my life.

I don’t really read books. Wish I did.

Reading Preferences

You can own a billion books and still be ignorant.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Books require titles; reading them doesn't

Don't get influenced by every book you read.

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

Yes, I do read books but only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and to hold him in contempt.

don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Authors and Writing

Only the nonreader fears books.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

The purpose of books is not to be read. I buy books not to read them. I own a lot of books. I write books, I collect books, I think about books, I copy books, I pay for books – I’m in the book business. But I don’t read books.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

Not everyone has a book in them.

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

Nobody has paid much attention to the structure of my books as books, probably because the individual works all begin in performance.

I don't read books, I write them.

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Never index your own book.

I don’t read books, I write them.

I don’t have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Books and Personal Identity

A book can be read to you, not for you.

Even people who can't read are impressed by books.

I am a book that nobody can understand or read

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

The books which you have read must be a part of you not all of you!

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

Books require titles; reading them doesn’t.

Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.

I’m the smartest person I know and I’ve never read a book in my life.

Challenges with Reading

I haven't read a book in my life,

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I'm not really book-smart.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

I don't read books much.

It's no fun to read a book, and have no one to discuss it with.

I’m not really book-smart.

I don’t read books much.

I hated school and never read a textbook. I only read entertaining books.

I don’t read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

Books and Society

I DON'T WANT TO SOUND PRETENTIOUS," says Emmanuel de Bayser, "but I don't understand people who don't have books.

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.

What is a book for if not to be read?

A book isn’t worth reading if it’s not worth discussing.

I never read one book at a time.

Books and Personal Growth

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

I don't take advances for my books.

I didn’t want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn’t going to do one.

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don’t count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

I don’t reread my books.

I have never written a book that didn’t teach me far more than it taught my reader.

I hardly ever look at my published books.

Other

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

I don't reread my books.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

I’m no different from anybody else. If I don’t have a card, I can’t check out these books.

A lot of people in government don’t really read books at all.

Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you’d understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Those who say ‘you only live once’ have never read a book.

I’m not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

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