Books Quote by David McDonald

“I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for…

— Doris Lessing

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

— Voltaire

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.”

— Virginia Woolf

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures…

— Aldous Huxley

“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.”

— Miranda A. Uyeh