Book Quote by Lloyd Jones

“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not…

— Lloyd Jones

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking…

— Noam Chomsky

“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a…

— Pierre Bayard

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too…

— Matthew Pearl

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and…

— Jonathan Carroll

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't…

— Anonymous

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more…

— A. Edward Newton

A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence…

— Marguerite Duras