top of page
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant

"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."

Standard 
 Customized
"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."

Exlpore more Books quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"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."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

Explore more quotes by Oscar Levant

Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"So little time and so little to do."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
Quote_1.png
Oscar Levant
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
bottom of page