Books Quote by Joyce Maynard

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

— Roberto Bolano

I try not to bore my readers.

— Jackie Collins

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

— Lin Yutang

“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to…

— John Irving

“One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to…

— Ben Yagoda

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

— Jane Austen

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

— Chelsea Cain

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

— Ajith Kumar

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

— Anonymous

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton