Quote by Stefan Zweig

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver…

— Pamela Glass Kelly

“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract…

— Helen Humphreys

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands”

— Rae Carson

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or…

— Ian Mcewan

“Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.”

— Ian McEwan

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the…

— Susan Sontag

“Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.”

— Hilary Mantel

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson