Books Quote by Anaïs Nin

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Remember, you're reading for pleasure. If you pick up a book and don't like it, put it down. Never read what you think you…

— Philip Riley

“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do?…

— Erin Blakemore

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary…

— Anonymous

“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when…

— Clifton Fadiman

“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the…

— Khaled Hosseini

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.”

— My mother