I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. (John le Carré)

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

John le Carré

Related topics

boast book end household read

Related quotes

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. View quote
Ezra Pound
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. View quote
P. L. Travers
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. View quote
Groucho Marx
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies