Back Quote by Jay Asher

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to…

— Suzanne Collins

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The…

— Caroline Dhavernas

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

— Michael Connelly

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have…

— Damon Lindelof

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly,…

— Margaret Atwood

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

— Michael Connelly

You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you…

— Cassandra Clare