Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. — Vladimir Nabokov
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. — Judy Blume
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has… — John Steinbeck
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't… — Douglas Adams
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven… — Jasper Fforde
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… — Alberto Manguel
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis
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… — Alberto Manguel
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. — Alberto Manguel
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… — Alberto Manguel
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. — Michael Connelly
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest… — Tara Bray Smith
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be… — Roald Dahl
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. — Mary Ann Shaffer
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they… — Andy Rooney
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. — Harry S. Truman
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber

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