Book Quote by Vikram Seth

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that…

— Anatole Broyard

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

— Daniel J. Boorstin

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine.…

— Alberto Manguel

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your…

— Hillary Clinton

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

— Suzanne Collins

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or…

— Tom Robbins

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

— Lauren Groff

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

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of…

— Karen Russell

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

— Anonymous