Books Quote by Chloe Thurlow

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.”

— Antonio Iturbe

“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others…

— John Green

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”

— Wally Lamb

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“It’s like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn’t known would…

— Linda Anderson

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window…

— Derek Thompson

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts