Book Quote by Charbel Tadros

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers.…

— Gary Ross

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'd rather read than watch a movie. It gives me new ways to approach my delivery, gives me a new vocabulary.

— Rich Homie Quan

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not…

— Manuel Puig

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read…

— Les Miles

A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a…

— Jay Neugeboren

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig