Readers Quotes

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things...

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and ne...

The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to...

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ...

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the...

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Read...

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout ...

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the san...

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ...

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the...

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of ...

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as ration...

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person...

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the rea...

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation....

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his...

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level...

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, fr...

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast...

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all becaus...

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and exp...

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that...

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to...

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to ...

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is t...

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the...

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parce...

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some ...

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I m...