Book Quote by Alan Lightman

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes…

— Paul Auster

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented…

— Donalyn Miller

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent…

— Michael Scott