Book Quote by Joe Queenan

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a…

— Blake Butler

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel,…

— Anonymous

“Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book is the…

— D.H. Lawrence

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

— Diane Setterfield

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey

“It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book…

— D.H. Lawrence

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all…

— Larry Winget

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to…

— Anthony Doerr

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think…

— Susan Sontag