The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

— Walter Kaufmann

“People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go…

— Amit Kalantri

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with…

— Donald Miller

Longest book was '2666' by Roberto Bolano, and it was an irregular reading experience. I read the first four parts during a cross-country plane…

— Sarah Weinman

“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the…

— Gustave Flaubert

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

— Kenzaburo Oe

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind of thing.…

— Lloyd Alexander

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the…

— Allison Joseph

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical…

— Danielle Dutton

“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You…

— Italo Calvino

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless…

— Molly Peacock

“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act…

— Maryanne Wolf

“like traveling without knowing what country you’re going to”

— Austin Wright

I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange…

— Tom Robbins

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

— Roger Zelazny