Books Quote by B.R. Myers Download Open image ““Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.”” — B.R. Myers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Classics Reading
“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read… — Carl F. Hovde Copy Share Image
“I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book. Then I… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.” — Aman Jassal Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“But farm workers kill animals because they can support their families by doing so, whereas we order the killing for reasons that have never… — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image