Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1381 authors

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the… — Susan Hill
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun… — Jasper Fforde
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. — William Maxwell
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol'… — Michele Bardsley
I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach… — Erin Morgenstern
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the… — Rick Riordan
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were… — Robert Frost
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. — Richard Peck
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood… — Roberto Bolano
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or… — John Green
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that… — John Green
At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you… — Jon Ronson
I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in… — Darynda Jones
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that… — John Green
For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find… — Michael Morpurgo

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