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Readers Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
- If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of…
- It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now…
- As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
- The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
- All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I…
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
- If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot…
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
- As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that…
- From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its…
More Readers Quotes
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- For people who are readers, reading is important to them. — Jeff Bezos
- A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is… — Augustine Birrell
- While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler
- If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks
- I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves… — Terry Brooks
- So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child