Book Quote by Paul Auster

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is…

— John Green

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

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

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

— Anne Fadiman

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist,…

— Irvine Welsh

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

— Julian Barnes