Reader Quotes

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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the… — Alberto Manguel
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because… — Alberto Manguel
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before. — Alberto Manguel
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic… — Toni Blake
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of… — Roger E. Olson
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what… — Charles de Lint
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do… — Charles de Lint
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as… — Charles de Lint
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are… — Charles de Lint
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up… — Charles de Lint
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader… — Amos Bronson Alcott
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then… — C.S. Lewis
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything… — Kurt Vonnegut
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt

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