Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well… — Isabel Allende
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author.… — Po Bronson
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. — Samuel Johnson
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… — Don DeLillo
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend… — Jerome K. Jerome
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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… — John Green
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers. — William Saroyan
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover… — Lloyd Alexander
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of… — Stephen King
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my… — Rabih Alameddine
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be… — Sarah Caudwell
If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where… — J. Michael Straczynski
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or… — Alan Bennett
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. — Ernest Hemingway
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light… — Gary Paulsen
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to… — Sarah Addison Allen
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that… — Kate Morton
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were… — Terry Pratchett
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely… — Maggie Stiefvater
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. — Patrick Ness

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