The Book That Matters Most Quotes

“Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“No one who reads can ever be bored,”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“He liked the right before part of things, when it was impossible to be disappointed.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not
love breathing.” —To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“Italo Calvino quote, ‘A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.’ For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“Yarn bombing is about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places,” Delia answered,”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“The thing is, you can use for eight hours, and then as long as you take sixty-four hours off, you can go another eight hours without being addicted. It’s like a scientific formula.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“Plays by William Shakespeare), “Books I Love” (here she placed Siddhartha, The Painted Bird, On the Road), “Books We Don’t Understand Why People Like” (and here she put Peyton Place and Love Story and Hawaii). It”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“Books Our Mother Loved” (here she placed Indiana and The Devil’s Pool, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights), “Books Our Father Loved” (here she placed The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories, Great Expectations, and Twelve”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“If you wait long enough, someone had told him once, you settle into being married. Miss”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most