Books Quote by John Green

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the reader has…

— Ravi Subramanian

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly…

— Margaret Atwood

“Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost invariably he…

— Ian Gregor

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

— Samuel Johnson

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

— Irving Stone

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It…

— Anonymous