Reader Quotes

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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the readerâ€™s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated… — Daniel H. Pink
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is… — Mohsin Hamid
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. — Edgar Allan Poe
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want… — Maureen Corrigan
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is… — Adam Gidwitz
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was… — Diane Setterfield
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who donâ€™t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you… — Daniel Handler
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the readerâ€™s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly,… — Ruth Ozeki
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,… — Raymond Carver
The man is a humbug â€” a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in… — Mahatma Gandhi
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones.… — Ruskin Bond
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius

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