Books Quote by Anonymous

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside…

— Ann Patchett

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

What really makes a home a home is seeing the books of whoever lives there.

— Antonia Lofaso

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

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

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

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

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

“The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King

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