Book Connection Quotes

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the people behind the pages of their favorite books.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.