Book Quote by William Wordsworth

“I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look…

— Raymond Chandler

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

— Alice Hoffman

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

“When we live with a solitude of heart, we can listen with attention to the words and the worlds of others, but when we…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“I never feel lonely if I've got a book...”

— Emilia Fox

“I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire…

— Betsy Byars

When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.

— Truman Capote

“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite and unpunishable…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

— Susan Wiggs

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

— Joan Didion

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

— Evangeline Lilly