Reader Quotes

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make...

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with...

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with th...

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an ...

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to liv...

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers...

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class Fra...

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for th...

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have a...

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superfi...

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature ...

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like...

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someon...

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad read...

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case al...

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd...

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions an...