Book Quote by Jean Rousset

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

— Jorge Luis Borges

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form…

— Margaret Mahy

Books have their destinies.

— Horace

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.”

— John Connolly

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others…

— David Suzuki

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

— P. L. Travers

“Each page in a book will discover other pages and other books. Thus books will seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together…

— Kevin Kelly

“The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to…

— Anonymous

“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”

— Ian Campbell Ross