I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough book shelves. Anna Quindlen |
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. Vladimir Nabokov |
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Woodrow Wilson |
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.Jacques Derrida |
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.Manuel Puig |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde |
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. Francois Fenelon |
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.Rita Dove |
