Books Quote by Timothy Snyder

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

— Timothy Snyder

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's…

— Nova Ren Suma

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now…

— Tom Chatfield

“For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore…

— John Hurt

“...books change lives, in big ways and small, from the simple desire to spend a few quiet hours in a comfy chair, swept away…

— Roxanne J. Coady

“Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.”

— Ronald E. Yates

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write,…

— Hilary Mantel

The abundance of books is distraction

— Seneca the Younger

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading…

— Nick Hornby