Book Quote by Alan Lightman

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.”

— John Connolly

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,…

— Margaret Atwood

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in…

— Amy Tan

Not every book is for every reader.

— Meg Waite Clayton

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book,…

— Carlton Cuse

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

— Brian Stableford

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint…

— Paul Theroux

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write,…

— Hilary Mantel

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

— Julian Barnes

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not…

— Jack Lasenby