You’re either reading a book or you’re not.
– Jonathan Franzen
Related Quotes:
- Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive-“ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. – Jonathan Franzen
- The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. – Jonathan Franzen
- An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it’s absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. – Jonathan Franzen
- Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people. – Jonathan Franzen
- [H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.] – Jonathan Franzen
- the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida – Jonathan Franzen
- When I’m writing I don’t want anyone else in the room – including myself. – Jonathan Franzen
- What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I’d outgrown the novel I’d once been so happy to live in – Jonathan Franzen
- There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate. – Jonathan Franzen
- In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill. – Jonathan Franzen
- It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. – Jonathan Franzen
- Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself. – Jonathan Franzen
- The mark of a legitimate revolution – the scientific, for example – was that it didn’t brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred. – Jonathan Franzen
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
- It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- Listening to Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling…however fleeting. – Jonathan Heatt
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally -“ and often far more -“ worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. – CS Lewis
- No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. – Gladys M Hunt
- When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. – Aman Jassal
- Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. – Isaac Asimov
- When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading – William Stafford
- If you are going to write a book,Make sure it is going to be worth reading . – Book Editor Angelina
- Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person. – Unknown
- A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. – David Mitchell
- Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life. – Chas Scott
- What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. – Carmela Dutra
- Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person – coolstoryreddit
- A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. – Richard Flanagan
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- I don’t understand your book. Isn’t every book a book of words? – Kristin Cashore
- A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- 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
- To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. – MF Moonzajer
- The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine
- But Moby-???? is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. – Robert Stone