Able Quote by Jane Austen

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in…

— Joseph Joubert

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

— George H. W. Bush

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.But then, you read.It was books that taught me that the…

— Alec Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught…

— James Baldwin

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

— Dorothy Parker

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around…

— Walter Moers

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

— Anonymous

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

— Jayne Ann Krentz

There are always few pages of life which you never wish to read again

— Nidhi Saini

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the…

— Michel Houellebecq

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West