Book Quote by Raoul Vaneigem

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way…

— Franz Wright

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

— Richard Scarry

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

— Don Paterson

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would…

— Chinua Achebe

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and…

— Eleanor Brown

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

— Pattiann Rogers

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order…

— Douglas A. Martin