Mark Twain Quotes

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Every book should have a romance.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.