Book Quote by David Shields

“Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!”

— Jen Selinsky

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone…

— Amor Towles

“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.”

— Jane Smiley

“This book takes the opposing stand that in order to go deeply inside ourselves, we must journey within our physical bodies.”

— Leslie Kaminoff

“A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself at home.…

— Jarod Kintz

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”

— James Burke

“I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting…

— Joanna Rossiter

“Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.”

— Matthew Lipman

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t…

— Masha Hamilton

“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

— Karen Armstrong

“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced…

— Paula McLain