Book Quote by John Connolly

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not…

— Jack Lasenby

“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”

— Donald Sassoon

“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.”

— My mother

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Ian Campbell Ross

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

— Anonymous

“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.”

— Sara Sheridan

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf…

— Terry Goodkind

“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.”

— Michael Benavidez