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Reading Books Quotes

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

"Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.396, Courier Corporation

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

Never read any book that is not a year old.

"Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.148, Canongate Books

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.142

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, University of Missouri Press

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

"Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House