Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Daniel Handler
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's… — Terry McMillan
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and… — Neil Gaiman
That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers. — James Patterson
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the… — Terry McMillan
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… — Alberto Manguel
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore! — D. J. MacHale
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their… — Octavio Paz
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed… — Oswald Spengler
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet… — Paul Theroux
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy… — Paulo Coelho
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters… — Ann Brashares
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom
God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be. — J D Salinger
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,… — Margaret Atwood

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