About Quote by Carol Gilligan

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark,…

— Haruki Murakami

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that…

— Ellen Potter

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more…

— Alice Hoffman

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

“My mother says that reading is thinking,’ Sofia said. ‘Not that we read and then we think, but rather that we think something and…

— Ricardo Piglia

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to…

— Anonymous

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

“She opened the book to a spot about halfway in. She had learned that it didn’t really matter where she opened the thing—it always…

— Scott Prussing

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful…

— Melissa de la Cruz

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

— Nora Ephron