Book Quote by William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

— William Styron

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

— William Styron

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never…

— Aaron Swartz

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

— Richard Flanagan

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish…

— Marc Acito

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it,…

— Karl Pilkington

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

— Ann M. Martin