Reader Quotes

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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the… — Alan Bennett
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley
A successful novel should interrupt the readerâ€™s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most… — Elwyn Brooks White
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers canâ€™t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind… — Jim C. Hines
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to… — Susan Sontag
Itâ€™s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the… — Saint Augustine
I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes… — Flannery O'Connor
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to… — Darynda Jones
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers
I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some… — Lisa Kleypas
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,… — Bertrand Russell
If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more… — Cassandra Clare
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. — David Foster Wallace
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was… — Diane Setterfield
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a… — Mortimer Adler
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were… — Michael Chabon
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the… — Clive Barker

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