Books Quote by Sydney Pollack

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book,…

— Carlton Cuse

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Reading books exposeses you to different lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside…

— Ann Patchett