Book Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we’re often accused of being heady. I don’t care. I love books and can devour…

— AnnaLisa Grant

From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering…

— Thomas Hobbes

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

— China Mieville

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray