# Quote — Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

> Here is all I ask of a book—give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [My Reading Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/my-reading-life.md)
- Page: 230
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#My_Reading_Life_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/my-reading-life/here-is-all

## More from this book

> I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/my-reading-life/i-cant-pass.md)

> Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next ten years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/my-reading-life/books-are-living.md)

> A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/my-reading-life/a-library-could.md)