Sarah Gadon Quotes

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

To start with, look at all the books.

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

I mainly buy books in my free time.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

I would always want printed books.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

A man is known by the books he reads.

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

I wanted to live among books.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

There is no frigate like a book

Books are like tweets, except longer.

I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.