Diverse Quote by Juan Goytisolo

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

— Dean Koontz

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason…

— Juan Goytisolo

Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.

— William Shunn

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for…

— Leo Tolstoy

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Dr. Seuss

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do…

— Natalie Babbitt

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

— Will Schwalbe

Every text assumes a reader.

— Alberto Manguel

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

— W. P. Kinsella