Book Quote by Annie Dillard

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

— Annie Dillard

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

— Annie Dillard

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt in her…

— Betty Smith

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.”

— Ksenia Anske

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

— Richard Marek

“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”

— Harper Lee

“During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.”

— Fay Weldon

“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

— William Styron

“Reading is like breathing. Reading the classics is like breathing highly oxygenated air.”

— Jane Greensmith