Book Reading Quotes - Page 9

• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

  Mary Butts

  Book, Reading, Two

  Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

  Halle Berry

  Struggle, Book, Reading

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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• reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Should

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.168, A&C Black

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• I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Country, Book, Reading

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• No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Book, Reading, Companion

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Editors

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Book, Reading, Names

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• Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Book, Reading, Science

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• It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Character

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• I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Home

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• People read every thing nowadays, except books.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Book, Reading, People

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• I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Taken, Reading, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.21, Anchor

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Believe

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• People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Book, Reading

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

  Richard Bach

  Reading, Book, Knives

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• All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, World

  Michel de Montaigne (1711). “Essays in 3 Books”, p.124

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• I love a garden and a book.

  Eliza Lucas

  Book, Reading, Garden

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• So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Smell

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• There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

  Leo Rosten

  Book, Reading, Answers

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