Jobs Quote by John Green

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

— Sol Stein

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

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

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life…

— Maureen Corrigan

“I consider myself more of a story teller than a writer. My readers constantly say that reading one of my stories is like watching…

— P.A. Morris

When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand…

— Joanna Scott

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl