Book Quote by Meg Rosoff

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the…

— Noah Hawley

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in…

— Joe Abercrombie

When you read a book by its cover, you see one thing, and then you find out so much more about them as a…

— Madeline Brewer

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende

People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time.…

— Sebastian Faulks

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

— George Johnson

A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of…

— Paul Auster

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into your subconscious…

— Lynn Coady

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley