Reader Quotes

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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;… — Charlotte Bronte
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw… — Ernest Hemingway
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique. — Scott Westerfeld
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. — Judy Blume
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and… — Paul Auster
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has… — John Steinbeck
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. — Anna Quindlen
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Thatâ€™s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a… — Stephen King
Description begins in the writerâ€™s imagination, but should finish in the readerâ€™s. — Stephen King
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers… — Stephen King
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader… — Marcel Proust
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his… — Michael O'Brien
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't… — Douglas Adams
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. — Anne Fadiman

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