Books Quote by Mark Vonnegut

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The…

— Mark Vonnegut

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

“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

“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.”

— Terry Eagleton

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

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

— Marcel Proust

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to a book…

— Me

That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader and the…

— George Saunders