Always Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was…

— Elaine Equi

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“...and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had…

— Olaudah Equiano

“She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but…

— Alejandro Zambra

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“A bonfire of the books. The thought curdles me. Some say my species is imperishable, but they lie, for ours is a chilling, provisional…

— James Morrow

I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would…

— William Faulkner

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about…

— Nina Sankovitch

“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,…

— Lavie Tidhar

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

— Terry Pratchett