Books Quote by Wallace Stegner

“We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious…

— Tony Reinke

“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.”

— Musicinto

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“If Readers have prejudices, that's the writing world we live in. We must decide how to navigate it. We can't please all the Readers…

— June Casagrande

“so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty that is…

— Chen Chen

“Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope…

— Patrick Hicks

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed…

— Jessica Park

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“My hope is that each and every reader will enter the world I've crafted with my words and come out the other side touched…

— Megan Denby

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as…

— Hilton Als