Reader Quotes

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Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a… — Haruki Murakami
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. — Douglas Adams
Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not… — J C Ryle
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book… — Paulo Coelho
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes… — Jorge Luis Borges
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no… — Pascal Mercier
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see… — J. Michael Straczynski
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting childrenâ€™s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most… — Patricia C. Wrede
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales… — Patricia A. McKillip
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be… — Gail Carson Levine
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to… — Ruskin Bond
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Anne Rice
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. — Jodi Picoult
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any… — Ian Mcewan
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I donâ€™t know. Likewise, I donâ€™t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and… — Mary Wollstonecraft
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. — Ray Bradbury
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too muchâ€”too… — James Patterson

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