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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

-Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. — Muna Adnan Naqi

Reading my books is like a slice of pie,
You can eat it fast, or slow, the choice is up to you — Janelle R. Moore

I'm not sure what is worse, a closed mind or a closed book. — Anthony Liccione

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. — Isaac

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug. — William J. Clinton

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift

It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot. — Frederick Dillen

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. — Alice Munro

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write. — Joyce Rachelle

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven. — Mark Rubinstein

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am. — Anonymous

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed. — Sylvia Boorstein

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you. — Carmela Dutra

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. — Benjamin Franklin

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C.S. Lewis

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. — Tom Felton

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me. — Thornton Wilder

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. — John McCarthy

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind. — E. Lockhart

Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life. — M.J. Andersen

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. — Ann Hood

I thought I'd be reading a new book today, but it doesn't feel right, or I don't feel like it. Some days are not new-book days. After — Rabih Alameddine

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not — Jim Rohn

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere? — J. Norman Collie

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless. — Maureen Corrigan

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker

Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head. — Timi Nadela

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. — Roger Ebert

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading. — Deyth Banger

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). — William Maxwell

Reading without taking notes, or high lighting your book will allow you to forget too soon. Lesson are so when they leave a mark. — Richard Morin

Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it. — BOB

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. — Doris Lessing

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for. — Ron Brackin

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. — Jon Heder

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C.S. Lewis

You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister - or from reading my book. — Jane Roberts

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors. — Hans Zimmer

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. — Patrick O'Brian

will you be the one reading the book or writing the book — Abe

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. — George MacDonald

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading. — Georgina Chapman

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. — Kurt Vonnegut

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie