those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…
– Anna Quindlen
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- We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. – Anna Quindlen
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen
- It’s amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn’t come true become,after a while, simply the way things are. – Anna Quindlen
- Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen
- In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. – Anna Quindlen
- So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time. – Anna Quindlen
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. – Anna Quindlen
- It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all. – Anna Quindlen
- Speech is the voice of the heart. – Anna Quindlen
- A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. – Anna Quindlen
- Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. – Anna Quindlen
- But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. – Anna Quindlen
- All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. – Anna Quindlen
- I’ve discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing. – Anna Quindlen
- I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. – Anna Quindlen
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- -¦secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink. – Kathleen Tessaro
- Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. – Louis LAmour
- Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. – Gloria Steinem
- Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square. – Gloria Steinem
- I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt. – Ted Bundy
- Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great. – Alin Sav
- If we didn’t read people who were bastards, we’d never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards. – Mary Karr
- Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you. – David Mitchell
- Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn’t decided yet. – Anna Snoekstra
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- 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. – PB Kerr
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves. – Anna Agoncillo