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Reader Quotes by John Green
- What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or…
- We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
- Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does…
- Books belong to their readers.
- You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore -…
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
- A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
- They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the…
More Reader Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski