Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment.
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Related School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror ... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea... KATHRYN MAGENDIE The parents and teachers need to know their reading scores in the next two weeks so that they can ge... DEBBIE RATCLIFFE One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotion... C.S. LEWIS Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i... RHEA PERLMAN Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Hu... L.R. KNOST And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ The faculty tries very hard not to assign books that the students won't need or find useful in their... GEORGE CARTSONIS Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in what... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s... C.S. LEWIS I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they hav... SARAH REES BRENNAN Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they ha... CHRISTIAN LANDER I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. T... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing do... RANSOM RIGGS Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prom... ALPHONSUS LIGUORI An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they ... JOHN UPDIKE Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they rema... LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ... JAMES BURKE I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time... JAMES PATTERSON Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Most physicians in training spend at least the early part of their career interacting with their boo... RICHARD FRANKEL When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that t... ELIZABETH BERG In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspira... JAMES THURBER On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, t... KELSEYLEIGH REBER Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse... VIRGINIA WOOLF Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most with... SOURCE UNKNOWN Both. Some of the children here came from really horrible situations. It’s enough to break your he... NICHOLAS SPARKS Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in ... DIANE SETTERFIELD While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. STEPHEN J. DUBNER Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace&... RICK RIORDAN One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l... BART D. EHRMAN Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't ... MICHAEL ENDE A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking b... LEMONY SNICKET The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are... TERRY PRATCHETT We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [Inside Ou... WARREN ZEVON My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying ... MALCOLM X My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyin... MALCOLM X My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi... MALCOLM X Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an ... JOHN WATERS Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of th... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l... ALAN BENNETT People come in Saturday and choose their books and some of them think this just happens magically, T... BETTY OUDERKIRK Even the most intensive users of newspapers and magazines spend less time reading these publications... BARRY PARR Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat... VIRGINIA WOOLF After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the re... JASPER FFORDE If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th... DON MARQUIS Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now... UMBERTO ECO If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kep... RAVI SUBRAMANIAN We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have... CAROLYN COATES He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not... C.S. LEWIS A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. JOHN HODGMAN It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that t... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When the women come for their hour-long appointment, often times when they come through our front do... DANA HARRISON The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries w... RENE DESCARTES When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to ... PAUL MERTON Consumers who are doing repairs or additions to their home will notice the effect when they buy a ba... KEN SIMONSON There is no question electronic communication is overtaking print. Students can find out about a col... CHARLES NOLAN 10% of the books that interest you can improve your life. Spend 90% of your time reading them. LORRIN L. LEE Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking ... WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th... DESMOND JOLLY Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the ... BEN OKRI Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair. LEMONY SNICKET Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w... AVI I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass the... WILL SCHWALBE Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the bu... A.E. NEWTON Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of w... DAN GROAT become as much a part of their books as do the readers, and they escape into the worlds they have cr... ROBERT VAUGHAN The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them kn... HENRY GILES I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l... MAX MULLER The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books... BRIAN WHITE With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture b... BEVERLY CLEARY Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and t... ALICE WALKER No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing. ANTHONY LICCIONE There are people everywhere who form a Forth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ... JAN MORRIS Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one pers... ANDY WARHOL A book can become your best companion in times of crisis. Not only do you learn in the journey ... LIZ HAY Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or ... RICHARD DE BURY The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools ar... JAMES PATTERSON I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching telev... JOHNNY CASH Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I form... TAHEREH MAFI Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. ITALO CALVINO The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or ... FELIX FRANKFURTER She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle... MAX BARRY
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