Book Quote by Nina Jacobson

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading…

— Joshua Meyrowitz

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

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or…

— Marilynne Robinson

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are…

— Joe Meno

“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is…

— Will Schwalbe

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think…

— Susan Sontag

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a…

— Annie Dillard

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

— Lauren Groff