Books Quote by Patti Smith

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to…

— Paul Auster

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books.…

— Diane Setterfield

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever…

— Malcolm X

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the…

— Michel Houellebecq

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached…

— Eudora Welty

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became…

— Sia

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative…

— Zig Ziglar

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Desire for books, desire to read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

— David Lodge