Book Quote by Jane Jacobs

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and…

— Deb Caletti

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or…

— Marilynne Robinson

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like…

— Mary J. Miller

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we…

— Ramona Koval

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien

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

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're…

— Laila Lalami