Book Meaning Quotes

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

A book brings its own history to the reader.

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.