Book Quote by J. Norman Collie

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or…

— Anonymous

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“This is why, when we have been particularly impressed by a book, we feel the need to talk about it; we do not want…

— Wolfgang Iser

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read,…

— Umberto Eco

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter