Books Quote by Umberto Eco

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

“But this one was a writer, not a reader.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.”

— Adam Langer

“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

— Juliet Ashton