Book Quote by Ann Patchett

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not…

— Gioconda Belli

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of…

— Cynthia Heimel

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book…

— Jim Rohn

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy…

— Leah Price

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson