Book Quote by Anne Fadiman

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a…

— Sherman Alexie

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

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

“No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for…

— Patricia Meyers Spacks

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses…

— Alec Hutson

“In order to be heard, an author must have readers...”

— Rachel Heffington

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

— Edmund Wilson

“Nobody ever reads the same book twice.”

— Robertson Davies

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more…

— A. Edward Newton