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Readers 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 like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
- 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…
- 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…
- I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great…
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