“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”— Tom Wolfe “There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:”— George Orwell “There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.”— Karen Joy Fowler