Abandoned Quote by Natsume Sōseki

“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but…

— James V. Schall

“If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him”

— Shannon Stacey

“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the…

— Paul Auster

“He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had…

— Stephen King

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never read or…

— Mark Salzman

“Now he only had an abstract interest in what was surrounding him, as though none of this was happening to him, but he was…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly…

— S. R. Ranganathan

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as…

— Andrew Peterson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,…

— Neal Shusterman