Book Quote by Joseph Conrad

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish…

— Marc Acito

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left…

— Charlaine Harris

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward…

— Jodi Picoult

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay…

— Markus Zusak

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

— Paul Sweeney

“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!”

— William Styron

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George