Alterations Quote by Paul Theroux

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint…

— Paul Theroux

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the…

— Henry James

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

— William Goldman

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

— Chetan Bhagat

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had…

— David Finch

I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that…

— Melissa Febos

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

— Janette Rallison

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous