Books Quote by Albert Camus

“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles”

— Joseph Brodsky

“When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.”

— N.H. Kleinbaum

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.”

— Ted Dekker

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather…

— Milan Kundera

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”

— Frank Morton McMurry

“My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel.”

— Ian McEwan

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

— Atwood H. Townsend

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.”

— Susan Hubbard

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson