Books Quote by Hilary Mantel

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading…

— Diane Setterfield

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

— Stan Lee

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you…

— Darren Boyd