Books Quote by Pierre Bayard

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through…

— Nick Hornby

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a…

— Rebecca Mead

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more…

— A. Edward Newton

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read…

— A. Edward Newton

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of…

— Cynthia Heimel

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and…

— Diane Schoemperlen