Able Quote by Tadeusz Borowski

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed…

— Stefan Zweig

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part…

— Ted Kooser

“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so…

— Marcel Proust

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left…

— Charlaine Harris

With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons.

— Boys Like Girls

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from…

— Andy Behrman

a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more…

— Ted Kooser

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night.…

— Mary Oliver

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there…

— Tanith Lee

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen