Book Quote by Erica Jong

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.…

— Gary Paulsen

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

“Reading books exposeses you to different lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it…

— Margaret Mahy

“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever…

— Joshua Rogers

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book…

— Jim Rohn

“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

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez