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A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared…

— Patrick O'Neill

“For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of…

— Sydney J. Harris

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any…

— Nick Hornby

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

— Jim Rohn

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

— Charles Kuralt

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

— Helen Hunt