Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

• the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Reading, Reading Novels, Novel

  Elizabeth Bowen (2012). “The Hotel: A Novel”, p.110, University of Chicago Press

• Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

• The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Book, Reading

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

• the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, Mind

• A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Reading, Two, People

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