Anatole Broyard Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Three, Should

• A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Sunset, Sight

• The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Talking

• The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Night

• A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Parent, Teeth

• We don't simply read books. We become them.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book

• The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Missing, Moments

• I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

  Anatole Broyard

  Daughter, Father, Book

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