Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it… — Neil Gaiman
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make… — Benjamin Carson
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it — Nella Larsen
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most… — Elwyn Brooks White
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind… — Jim C. Hines
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the… — Saint Augustine
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,… — Bertrand Russell
If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more… — Cassandra Clare
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were… — Michael Chabon
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the… — Clive Barker
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach… — Erin Morgenstern
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were… — Robert Frost
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood… — Roberto Bolano
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… — John Green
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey
For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find… — Michael Morpurgo
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical… — Terri Windling
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is… — Jeanette Winterson
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. — Scott Westerfeld

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