I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
Virginia Woolf
Related I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is... LALLA WARD I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou... MARY POPE OSBORNE I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time. CHRIS MURRAY It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called... C.S. LEWIS One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading ... CHRIS RASCHKA The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it ... LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo... C.S. LEWIS Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p... PAUL THEROUX I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on ... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, witho... VINCENT VAN GOGH There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside ... GAIL CARSON LEVINE I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C.S. LEWIS The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exc... JOHN W. FOSTER I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi... ANDREA BOCELLI I always seem to be reading several books at once. DREW GILPIN FAUST Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for your... MAXIM GORKY A book can become your best companion in times of crisis. Not only do you learn in the journey ... LIZ HAY If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. OSCAR WILDE Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui... MAYA ANGELOU Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui... RICHARD MCKENNA Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continu... RICHARD MCKENNA I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ... AL YANKOVIC I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzwe... STEVIE WONDER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S... MARY MACLANE The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. KATHERINE MANSFIELD The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. STANISLAW JERZY LEC The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. KATHERINE MANSFIELD You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. JOSEPH DELANEY In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. MARIA SEMPLE This book of our existence is everything that has ever happened to everyone in every universe. All t... RUSSELL ANTHONY GIBBS It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--m... TESSA DARE The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. KATHERINE MANSFIELD You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single... TREVOR RABIN Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle ... LIN YUTANG I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ... DIANE SETTERFIELD I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. VIRGINIA WOOLF As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. ... BENJAMIN BRATT Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "r... RICHARD MITCHELL If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ... LUDWIG VON MISES I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a... L.M. MONTGOMERY While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. STEPHEN J. DUBNER I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth read... ASHWIN SANGHI That boat will have to sound their note two to three seconds faster. The sound takes time to travel.... DIANE LABROSSE As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. ... BENJAMIN BRATT I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. CHARLES M. SCHULZ The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. DEAN ACHESON I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are alwa... MARILYNNE ROBINSON With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture b... BEVERLY CLEARY Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece... JOHN MORLEY I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold... FAYE HALL If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is t... HARUKI MURAKAMI The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I... ADORA SVITAK I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r... ANTONY BEEVOR Never underrate the power of books,by the time you get old & become idle,one thing that can keep you... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what t... E. M. FORSTER I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al... ― LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al... LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is tha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. DAVID MITCHELL He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what... MAXWELL MALTZ You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what... What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading ALICE JAMES I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing... JANE BIRKIN There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at... KATE THOMPSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha... SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over ha... SAMUEL JOHNSON Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli... ALDOUS HUXLEY If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. THOMAS CARLYLE One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and disco... BEVERLY CLEARY I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t... L. E. MODESITT, JR. Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at the same time. VIKRANT PARSAI The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. SAMUEL SMILES I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals. VIDYA BALAN Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. MARK HADDON Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw... TONY REINKE One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo... FRANKLIN P. JONES I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the... ALONZO CHURCH The books the children get to choose from are always brand new books. We try to have a mixture of re... DONNA CLAPP I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gain... MURIEL BARBERY Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. DIANE DUANE There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by whi... IMMANUEL KANT Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over a... MASON COOLEY We very seldom go through the full three reading procedure. When you only have meetings once a month... ED OURADA JR One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo... FRANKLIN P. JONES What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. CARMELA DUTRA We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v... D.H. LAWRENCE At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. IAN MCEWAN An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful... C.S. LEWIS Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of tim... MICHAEL DIRDA When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that.... DAN RADCLIFFE
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl... VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart? VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com... VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an... VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow. VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge... VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se... VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ... VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy... VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee... VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl... VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind. VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac... VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ... VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,... VIRGINIA WOOLF