Book Quote by Anne Fadiman

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

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

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are…

— Ken Liu

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

— Anthony Burgess

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

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

— Sylvia Day

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact…

— Ford Madox Ford