Book Quote by Charles Van Doren

“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”

— Frank Morton McMurry

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

“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

“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.”

— Hervé Le Tellier

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

— E.M. Forster

“If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“My book isn't meant to be read all at once, but rather all in good time”

— Justin Bienvenue