Books Quote by Harold Brodkey

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that…

— Kate Braverman

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily…

— Louis Aragon

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the…

— Richard Haynes

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's…

— Frank Peretti