Books Quote by John Ashbery

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read…

— Katherine Dunn

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in…

— Amy Tan

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

— Gabriel Ba

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak…

— Jean Genet

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the author's description…

— Jasper Fforde

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and…

— Anonymous

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at…

— Sandra Cisneros

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life;…

— Pascal Bruckner