Books Quote by Claire Messud

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing himself in…

— Josephine Humphreys

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines…

— Margaret Atwood

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved,…

— Meg Rosoff

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his…

— John Green

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse