
A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.
– Gabrielle Dubois
Related Quotes:
- Let’s read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! – Gabrielle Dubois
- 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
- 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
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- Why do we do so few when we can do so much? – Gabrielle Dubois
- Life can be so unexpected and wolderful! – Gabrielle Dubois
- 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
- 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
- My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books? – Gabrielle Zevin
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
- It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
- For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
- Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. – EM Forster
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.- –Alison Bechdel – Leah Price
- I can lend you my money not my books. – Amit Kalantri
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- My mother was an avid reader…She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes… – Adriana Trigiani
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- A woman can lend a man the strength to conquer a kingdom, and bring him to his knees with one breath. – Brandy Nacole
- I know he’s a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes. – Gabrielle Zevin
- you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. – J Patrick Lewis
- When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been. – Jennifer duBois
- Saying good-bye when you know it’s for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience. – Allison DuBois
- Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment. – Jennifer duBois
- We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose. – Jennifer duBois
- It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility. – Jennifer duBois
- Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let’s always lend a helping hand. – Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
- Your imagination is a very important thing because nobody can take that away from you. No one can look in your head and read your thoughts. – BA Gabrielle
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
- She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all – Rick Yancey
- It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm’s way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things? – Thomas Lynch