Books Quote by Martin Amis

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

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

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green

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

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

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

— Manuel Puig