Reader Quotes

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I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore! — D. J. MacHale
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in… — Kate DiCamillo
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book… — Annie Dillard
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P L Travers
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their… — Octavio Paz
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right. — Kate DiCamillo
I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of… — Tucker Max
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for… — Arthur Conan Doyle
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is… — Kate DiCamillo
The library smells like old books â€” a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores… — Elizabeth McCracken
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book… — Nicole Krauss
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object… — Elwyn Brooks White
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's… — Alain de Botton

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