Failure Quote by Irving Stone

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…

— Adam Smith

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Rose Vane

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the most healing…

— Harold Bloom

“Vincent was the victim of his own fanatic heart. “There’s something in the way he talks that makes people either love him or hate…

— Steven Naifeh

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading…

— Diane Setterfield

“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed…

— Steve Kendall

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

— Bill Blass

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to…

— Anna Quindlen

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan