Literary Bond Quotes

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.

I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

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.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.