Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to… — Norman Cousins
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come… — Lawrence Clark Powell
If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got… — John Le Carre
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. — Joe Barton
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I… — Ann Beattie
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She… — Harriet Van Horne
Get head like a mind reader. You washed up, I'm the dry cleaner. — Lil Wayne
I'm not a mind reader, so the unspoken words doesn't tell me anything at all. — Nikhil Saluja
I just wanna be the reader, the liker or the commenter now. No more status updates... — Sim
I had not intended to love her; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;… — Zoheb
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The… — MAYMA
Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :)) — Reader's Digest
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. — Sofia
I wonder how people write exactly how they feel and give the reader the same feeling. Its a blessing!! — Farah Mustafa
A dislike button especially after the quote doesnt mean the lack of thinking of its writer but it probably describes the ignorance and the lack… — Vikrant Parsai
Writing is like acting on stage because when you write you have to make sure that your readers or audiences will really be entertained and… — Christine Mae Sajo Gallego
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox

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