Book Quote by Joshua Foer

“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

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a…

— Stephen Covey

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life…

— Victor Pelevin

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh.…

— Karin Slaughter

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

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

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that…

— James Patterson

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

— Jonathan Lethem

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

— Gabriel Zaid

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those…

— Anna Quindlen

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except…

— Anonymous