The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There is an aversion to long chunks of sentences...The dire problem is that long chunks of sentences are still the best way… — Dick Meyer Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
