Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.” — Jennifer Ball Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Taylor had been a book lover her entire life and, even at twenty-six, loved nothing more than curling up and getting lost… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
“Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what… — Elias Canetti 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
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“I read a lot...I love books. I work with books. Books are my life.” — The Distant Hours Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
