Books Quote by Raj Doctor

“Umit did not allow the books to read him. Nor did he allow the books to dictate his thoughts.”

— Raj Doctor

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

— Lev Grossman

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.”

— Vince Passaro

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said, "I've read…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”

— Michael Patrick Hearn

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she read to…

— Catherine Cruzan

“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his…

— Khaled Hosseini