Books Quote by William Wordsworth

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off…

— Billie Piper

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels