Book Quote by Doris Lessing

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

“This is no longer restlessness--it's recklessness. At first we're walking hand in hand. Then we're running hand in hand. That giddy rush of keeping…

— David Levithan

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

— Chris Cleave

“Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.”

— John Steinbeck

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf

I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance…

— William Wyndam Grenville

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the…

— Alison Weir

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave…

— Anonymous

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

— Kerry Kennedy

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an…

— Quentin Blake

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

— Maurice Sendak