Book Quote by Maggie O'Farrell

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen sensitively, and…

— Ian Gregor

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

— Daniel Kahneman

“My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel.”

— Ian McEwan

I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an…

— John Larroquette

“Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that what I…

— Greg Dening

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

“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

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think…

— Anne Frank