Book Quote by Mary McCarthy

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change.…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Sometimes I Reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the…

— Nicola Yoon

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly…

— Elizabeth Strout

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately…

— Amy Tan

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to…

— Lloyd Alexander

“The revisiting of an especially admired or loved book can become, perhaps, a five-year ritual, marking the passage of time in your life, helping…

— Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

— Barbara Park

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that…

— Emma Watson

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

— Alberto Manguel

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you…

— Ann Patchett