Book Quote by Marcel Proust

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

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

“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist…

— George Buchanan

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton