Book Quote by Meles Zenawi

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

“It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a…

— Anne Roiphe

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

— Caroline Dhavernas

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are…

— W. Somerset Maugham