Anatole Broyard Book Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.