Book Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take…

— Harlan Coben

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are…

— Victor Null

You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in…

— Michael Swanwick

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books…

— Sara Pascoe

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone…

— Laura Furman

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply…

— Lloyd Jones

“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

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love…

— Jamie Tworkowski

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

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

People who read are people who dream.

— Pablo Picasso