Book Quote by Akhil Sharma

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it…

— John Green

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

— Henry James

“Trust creates the sharing of ideas, plans, and feelings that becomes a gift that you can treasure.”

— Elizabeth Bourgeret

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and…

— Joshua Mohr

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I…

— Dan Simmons

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson