Reader Quotes
Vladimir Nabokov
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
2035 Gustave Flaubert
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
1680 Georges Bataille
Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.
2188 Vladimir Nabokov
The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.
3797 Cheryl Alleway
Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.
3422 L.J. DeVet
The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened
1351 Dani Harper
There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
2709 Brook Tesla
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
1557 Toba Beta
The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.
1495 Joseph Eastwood
If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.
4930 Alex Morritt
Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.
1706 Anne Fadiman
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
4031 Ursula K. Le Guin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
1666 Kevin Smokler
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
2203 Alberto Manguel
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
1398 Alberto Manguel
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
3968 Alberto Manguel
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading - once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive - is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
3932 Lawrence Clark Powell
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
3327 Alberto Manguel
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.
1369 Paul Theroux
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
3694 Alberto Manguel
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
4741 Victor Hugo
He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
1889 Tim Tharp
Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.
1740 Aman Jassal
That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.
1632 Aman Jassal
If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
4349 Aman Jassal
A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
2157 Marcel Theroux
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
3099 Aman Jassal
Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.
2383 Aman Jassal
If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
4239 Lemony Snicket
The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.
1847 Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a passionate reader.
New interested books keep adding on my reading list.
My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.
4589 Vladimir Nabokov
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
4505 John Connolly
Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.
2650 Aman Jassal
Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.
3344 Aman Jassal
Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.
1321 Aman Jassal
If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.
4012 Aman Jassal
In reading you must pursue to become a creator.
3524 Harley King
Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.
4615 Lailah Gifty Akita
The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.
1962 Aman Jassal
Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.
1116 Sheri Cobb South
Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him
4989 Jeanette Winterson
For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.
2406 Jacques Amyot
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
3984 Anthony Powell
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
2652 Patrick W. Carr
A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?
4599 Matthew D. Forgenti
Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti
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