No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
– Romain Rolland
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- Everything is music for the born musician. – Romain Rolland
- If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
- One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. – Aaron Haspel
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Tom Wolfe
- Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
- The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. – Kelseyleigh Reber
- I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the – Gail Carriger
- She reads a lot of books. Good things, books. – Thorne Smith
- He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old. – Edward BulwerLytton
- there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it – Roman Rolland
- 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
- …the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass—. – Romain Gary
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
- The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine
- 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
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- A man who reads will find himself. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. – Virginia Woolf
- Never trust a man who reads only one book. – Arturo PrezReverte
- Woe be to him that reads but one book. – George Herbert
- A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. – Siri Hustvedt
- In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? – John Irving
- The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. – Dave Mearns
- I love you silly ‘holy’ book. Here’s hoping everybody un-reads it. – Fakeer Ishavardas
- Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book. – Toba Beta
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – WH Auden
- Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books. – Jasper Fforde
- The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang
- The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. – Anatole France
- She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions. – Vladimir Nabokov
- I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day. – Godfrey Orateng
- She reads books as one would breathe air,to fill up and live. – Anne Dillard
- A man is known by the books he reads. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Maman’s life was an unfinished book. Celeste had to discover the ending, and then she could close the cover for ever. – Marguerite Kaye
- I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that. – Mildred Aldrich
- Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though. – Victor LaValle