Book Quote by Augustine Birrell

“Before every elementary school classroom had a 'Drop Everything and Read' period, before parents and educators agonized more about children being glued to Call…

— Pamela Paul

“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.”

— Pamela Paul

“Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was -…

— Will Self

“Bookishness, an unfortunate trait for a girl, especially one who is not nice to look at.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the…

— Pamela Paul

“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto,…

— Pamela Paul

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul

“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.”

— Pamela Paul

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it…

— Nicholson Baker

I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I…

— Larry Fessenden

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox