Books Quote by E. B. White

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or…

— Tom Robbins

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or…

— Tom Robbins

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

— Charlie Huston

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

“The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret,…

— Alberto Manguel