Books Quote by Hermann Hesse

“Every reader his [or her] book.”

— S. R. Ranganathan

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

“A writer is the conscience of the world.”

— Doris Lessing

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

— Anonymous

“He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“but remember that every critic loves to judge that which he wishes he had the nerve to do himself. I”

— Christopher Greenwood

“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.”

— St John Perse

“But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman

“One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.”

— Aaron Haspel