Book Quote by Doris Lessing

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

— Doris Lessing

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

— Richard Yates

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would…

— Ingrid Bengis

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

— Ernest Dimnet

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

— Vick Hope

“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is…

— Matt Haig

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down…

— Anonymous

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted…

— Molly Ringwald