Reader Quotes

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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens… — Dorothea Brande
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain… — Joe Queenan
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in… — Rebecca Solnit
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out… — Louise Mensch
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time… — Diane Setterfield
When I read, I'm purely a reader — Anne Tyler
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time. Amaryllis's voice is… — Susan Wiggs
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a… — Jason Epstein
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous… — Jason Epstein
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the… — Antonya Nelson
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. — Kevin J. Anderson
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of… — Jane Yolen
I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes… — Hugh Howey
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if… — Evelyn Underhill

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