Reading Too Many Books Quotes

Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers. — M.F. Moonzajer

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. — Jack London

In those days, there was no money to buy books. — Ernest Hemingway,

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless. — Anita Valle

Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier. — Elizabeth Nelson

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! — Gabrielle Dubois

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. — Danny Tyran

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time! — Jen Selinsky

Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books. — James Fenimore Cooper

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

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes

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 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

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach. — Peter Turchi

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche

They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything. — Rainbow Rowell

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. — John Lothrop Motley

And books -- she swallows like dumplings. — Sholem Aleichem

Every book is a world. — Gabrielle Zevin

I am a machine condemned to devour books. — Karl Marx

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. — Murray Pura

She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful. — Diana S. Zimmerman

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse. — Andrew Piper

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. — Tom Spanbauer

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured. — Nick Harkaway

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

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth. — Henry Dumas

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield

You can never have too many books or too many hugs. — Gina House

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry

So this is what I get for reading too many books I suppose. — J.C. Morrows