Books Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It…

— Carrie Fisher

“I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories,…

— John Burnham Schwartz

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made…

— John Green

“I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I…

— Adrienne Rich

“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”

— David S.E. Zapanta

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is…

— Lois Lowry

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead

I'm always reading books.

— Maverick Carter

“I really do believe stories about the struggles of life do help foster resilient and happy children. They make Tips children understand the whole…

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger