Book Quote by Julian Barnes

“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates…

— Will Schwalbe

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Alan Lightman

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

— Charlie Huston

“Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same…

— Truus Matti

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole…

— George Orwell

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to…

— Madame Guyon

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev