Books Quote by Alice Hoffman

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

— Daniel Pennac

I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still…

— Elif Batuman

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

— Eudora Welty

Sometimes I read read as read when its actually supposed to be read as read. I want to cry.

— Ramandeep Singh

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading…

— Diane Setterfield

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a…

— Shawn Mendes

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

— Laurie Halse Anderson