Book Quote by Joshua Foer

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book…

— John Ruskin

“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and…

— Joshua Foer

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays…

— Stephen Greenblatt

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a…

— Nick Hornby

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

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

“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is…

— George Orwell