Book Quote by William Hazlitt

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

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read…

— Anonymous

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“There are people who read books, and then there are people who define their lives by the books they have read and by the…

— Jeffrey Keeten

“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You…

— Italo Calvino

If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver,…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you,…

— Tim Parks

“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate.…

— Sophie Divry

“In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If…

— James Elkins

“Books feel more intimate. And the people who go out of their way to read your writings, are initially more open to what you…

— Robin S. Baker