Quotes About Devouring Books

#1. Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing.

Haruki Murakami

#2. There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Edna O'Brien

#3. I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

Anthony Horowitz

#4. Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.

Robert O. Paxton

#5. I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Gary Coleman

#6. Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

Joe Jonas

#7. Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

Colson Whitehead

#8. They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions ...

Kate Morton

#9. Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

Alan Bennett

#10. I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Nikki Grimes

#11. She kept me from living in back alleys and going back to drugs. I paid her back, but I owed her a lot more than the money. Emily saved my life." Buck Jamison in Goodbye Emily

Michael Murphy

#12. If you're truly open, you'll put every single thing you think is true on the line. And in doing so, you live in questions, not answers.

Gail Brenner

#13. I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

Tom Upton

#14. This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.

Roald Dahl

#15. Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Garrison Keillor

#16. It'll be the same old oppression under a brand-new name . . . and your people will suffer like never before.

Kiera Cass

#17. I rewrapped the scarf around my neck, and thought about how excited Jake had been that first winter he was here. Maybe it was just as simple as this: that he'd been up here enough to know that there wasn't anything special about Willow Hill. Including me.

Claire Ray

#18. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

#19. Blue eyes held hers. "I have the oddest desire to learn what you want from life," he continued.

Suzanne Enoch

#20. Sixty beats of a heart would be enough. If I could hold them. Let them know I came for them no matter what stood in my way. It would be enough. Sixty beats of a heart past that door would outweigh sixty years in this world without them.

Mark Lawrence

#21. A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.

Philip Roth

#23. I suspect that I'm not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment: diving into a specific book, immersing inside a particular movie, devouring certain foods or humming to just the right song.

Barbara Brooke