Nora Ephron Quotes

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I read, I watch a lot of movies, I'm constantly living, so I'm constantly having more to say.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.