Books Quote by Sven Birkerts

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first place.”

— Graham Parke

“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others…

— John Green

“Sometimes, I feel like I connect more deeply with the characters in novels than with people I meet in real life. Maybe because in…

— Varian Krylov

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences [in my journal], than I do in reading much. Novels, even if…

— Abigail May Alcott

“Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of…

— Taylor Berke

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan