Anchors Quote by Roy Blount, Jr

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

— Neel Mukherjee

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

— William Styron

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A…

— J. Patrick Lewis

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

— Vick Hope

My books keep me occupied.

— Akshara Haasan

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

— Holbrook Jackson