Being Quote by Anita Shreve

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

— Stephen Chbosky

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed…

— Stefan Zweig

I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one…

— Jay Asher

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore