Book Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or…

— Marilynne Robinson

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

— Jean Rousset

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky…

— Jasper Fforde

“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve their mental…

— Anonymous

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking…

— Noam Chomsky

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think…

— Susan Sontag