Reader Quotes

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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there… — Vladimir Nabokov
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle
â€¦when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentenceâ€¦in love, never settleâ€¦value yourself first and this will help you to value othersâ€¦life is short,… — Spider Robinson
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what theyâ€™re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May… — Charlotte Bronte
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it… — Flannery O'Connor
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity… — Ruskin Bond
Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar. — C.S. Lewis
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. — Saul Bellow
I canâ€™t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… — Jorge Luis Borges
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that… — Salman Rushdie
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… — Anne Lamott
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of lifeâ€™s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!… — Victor Hugo
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. — Vladimir Nabokov

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