Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to read masterpieces. I just want to read one amazing book after another. As a completist you are generally reading the bad ones.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

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.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.