Book Quote by John Green

“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his…

— John Green

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The ability to read opened up a new and magic world for him, a world he had never dreamed of before. It changed him.…

— Dale Carnegie

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

— John Green

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

— Peter Murphy

“And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of…

— Keith Miller

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing,…

— Sara Gruen

“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.”

— Sylvia Plath

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is a glorious thing, to be able to write with pen on paper instead of nail or hook into oak, to feel one's…

— Doug Dorst