Book Quote by John M. Ford

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would…

— Chinua Achebe

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon…

— Isabel Allende

No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be…

— Nick Hornby

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

“It’s tempting to see books the way we see gadgets: that we need the very latest, most up-to-date version. But just because a novel…

— Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a…

— Rebecca Mead

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

— Anatole Broyard

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second…

— Siegfried Sassoon