Book Quote by Charles de Lint

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do…

— Norman Cousins

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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 have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

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

— Sylvia Day

“The best authors are both evocative AND precise. But if you prefer one over the other, who is to say what's best? Every book…

— Anonymous

“a good reader makes a good book”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book,…

— Carlton Cuse

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

— Criss Jami

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not…

— Jack Lasenby