“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.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) British actor-manager

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

“"Why are they ashamed and miserable?"
"They're repenting they're white. Any thinking human does it. Don't you read your own history books? So if you attack those miserable moderns or modernist, knight, you'll be making a miserable historical mistake. You will be preventing whites from hating their own whiteness."
Don Quixote finally refused the dogs' attack on her attack: "Liberalism has never stopped me from doing anything", said the knight.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

“When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters

“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

“You've got enough in here that people who get hold of this — like AP or any of the state-controlled media — they're going to focus on the soap opera aspects of your book and they're going to ignore what is truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read.”

Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality

“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist