Books Quote by William Trevor

“Here’s to a tasty lunch,” she says, winking at me. It’s the strangest thing, but I actually feel my body respond to her. Beneath…

— Felicity Brandon

“But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was…

— Jane Smiley

“How hungrily we read about ourselves!”

— Gore Vidal

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Life's no fun unless you read!”

— Avwedhorn

“No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a…

— Denis Diderot

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

— Walter J. Ong

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

— Herman Wouk

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

— Harold Brodkey

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

— Harold Bloom

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker