Douglas Coupland Quotes

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've just started re-reading that and am really enjoying it. But the last book I read in its entirety was 'Willard and his Bowling Trophies,' by Richard Brautigan, which is amazing.

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.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

A good book is an event in my life.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do