Reader Quotes

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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… — Tom Robbins
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. — Kate DiCamillo
Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Bronte
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so… — Helen Humphreys
Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. — Howard Pyle
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and… — Hunter S. Thompson
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven… — Jasper Fforde
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel
And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so… — Michel de Montaigne
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized… — C.S. Lewis
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis
For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. — Jonathan Franzen
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. — Phyllis McGinley
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But… — Douglas Coupland
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its… — Alberto Manguel
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. — Alberto Manguel

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