Books Quote by Karl Marx

My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and read as…

— Greil Marcus

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,

— Carl F. H. Henry

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

— Anonymous

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

— Paul Gilbert

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

— Tom Bissell