Book Quote by Jay McInerney

“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to a book…

— Me

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to…

— Chinelo Okparanta

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of…

— Karen Traviss

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know what really…

— Nicole Krauss

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen