Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Lin Yutang

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to…

— Quintilian

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it…

— Kathryn Alesandrini

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

Every text assumes a reader.

— Alberto Manguel

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and…

— Mohammed Dib

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges