Reader Quotes

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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover… — Lloyd Alexander
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a… — Anne Fadiman
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made… — Aberjhani
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've… — Kate Morton
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.… — Peter Straub
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of… — Stephen King
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days… — Audrey Niffenegger
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so… — Kate DiCamillo
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my… — Rabih Alameddine
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. — Wallace Stevens
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates. — Chuck Klosterman
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts… — Curtis Sittenfeld
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them… — Alan Moore
Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no… — Kate DiCamillo
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies… — Pat Conroy
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis

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