Book Quote by Edward St Aubyn

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

— Michael Caine

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

— Lauren Groff

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you…

— Jeanette Winterson

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

— Janet Fitch

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

— Michael Connelly

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan