Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way…

— Karin Slaughter

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

— Anonymous

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for…

— Anonymous

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo