Biographies Quote by Anonymous

“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores…

— Lewis Buzbee

"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to…

— Lewis Buzbee

“I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now what I…

— Fernando Pessoa

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“We are all in “the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important—which burns at the edge of addiction.”

— Jana Richman

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it”

— Anonymous

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the…

— Eudora Welty

“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up inside me…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no…

— Louis L'Amour

“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a wonderful, unrepentant…

— Tana French