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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. — W. Somerset Maugham

I love the way you look when reading a book - content and dreamy, off in another world. — Rachel Cohn

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself. — Bohumil Hrabal

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book. — Nicholaa Spencer

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. — Glen Duncan

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. — Siri Hustvedt

I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher. — Nicholson Baker

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book. — Christina Baker Kline

He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted. — Alden Bell

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book. — Susan Sontag

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world. — Erri De Luca

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. — Holbrook Jackson

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — J.K. Rowling

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.
- The Trouble With Reading — William Stafford

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was. — Oprah Winfrey

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. — Deb Caletti

Never underestimate the power of giving a book! — Carmela Dutra

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. — Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul. — Veronica Henry

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. — Jason Ellis

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else. — Curtis Sittenfeld

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. — Malcolm Gladwell

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. — Willie Geist

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound

She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right. — Sarah Mayberry

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. — Stanley Baldwin

St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up. — Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can't explain why. — Deborah Wiles

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. — Daniel T. O'Hara

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. — Edward Gibbon

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities. — Fran Veal

When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend. — Min Kim

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. — Andre Maurois

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti

I'm a book girl
I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down. — Mizuki Nomura

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better. — Wency June Z. Libot

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry. — Sally Mann

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. — Hisham Matar

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

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. — Robin Gibb

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children. — Aerin Lauder

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less! — Tracy Chevalier

A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading? — Janet Evanovich

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think. — Chris Brady

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress. — David Shields

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle

I love a garden and a book. — Eliza Lucas

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

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. — Ashwin Sanghi

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. — Mike Tyson

There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn

The best gift you can give me is a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. — Marcia Gay Harden

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. — Sonam Kapoor

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!. — Will Rogers

It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages. — Sara Shepard

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. — Cassandra Clare

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience. — William Gaddis

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn

If a book isn't worth reading over and over again, it isn't worth reading at all. — Oscar Wilde

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. — Rivers Cuomo

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe. — Lauren Conrad

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. — Steven Wright

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book. — H.L. Stephens

A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.' — Douglas Booth

The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9 — Kenny Pieper

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. — Judith Hill

I spend so much time on the Internet ... I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. — Aziz Ansari

Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C.S. Lewis

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. — Daniel Handler