I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day” — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.” — Barbara Michaels Copy Share Image
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a gym person, so I do walk a lot. I find gym is incredibly boring. Other thing I do… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I have filled every… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
“Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do;… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
“It may sound dorky, but I love books- the feel of the paper, the old musty smell, & especially the way the… — Cheryl Renee Herbsman Copy Share Image
I just want young people to read my books and feel cared for, feel safe, feel like there's someone else in the… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
