Books Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading…

— Edith Grossman

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“...on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.”

— Diane Setterfield

“While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.”

— William Gay

“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never…

— Richard Flanagan

“I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita