Books Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Be not only a good reader, hold a pen and bleed.”

— Leo Jaranilla Gutierrez

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.”

— Stephen King

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who…

— Laurence Sterne

“When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is…

— Terry Eagleton

“I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written—it’s a quirk…

— Kim Wright

“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my…

— Azar Nafisi