Books Quote by Wyatt Prunty

“...it all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general,…

— Lorrie Moore

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than…

— Harper Lee

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never…

— Richard Flanagan

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.”

— Graham Greene

“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh...…

— C.M. Hayden

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami