Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least… — Cecelia Ahern
The sun shines. Readers read. — Roderick Townley
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see… — J. Michael Straczynski
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most… — Patricia C. Wrede
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to… — Ruskin Bond
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. — Ray Bradbury
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much—too… — James Patterson
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and… — Ian Mcewan
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers… — Anthony Horowitz
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them… — Anna Quindlen
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the… — Jodi Picoult
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is… — Mohsin Hamid
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want… — Maureen Corrigan
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,… — Raymond Carver
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in… — Mahatma Gandhi
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones.… — Ruskin Bond
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren

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