477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

I like to read. I'm going to read my book.

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

The four executives arranged a complex scheme to cook the books at AIG. The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

It will be nice to be in the record books, I guess, but it's not really a great big deal,

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.