Reader Quotes

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The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed… — Oswald Spengler
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet… — Paul Theroux
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a… — Charles de Lint
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?â€™ â€˜Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy… — Paulo Coelho
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror… — C.S. Lewis
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,… — Henry James
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters… — Ann Brashares
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the… — Maureen Johnson
Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.' Clary opened her… — Cassandra Clare
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom
God, how I still love private readers. Itâ€™s what we all used to be. — J D Salinger
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!… — Mikhail Bulgakov
A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. — John Green
There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided… — Kate DiCamillo

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