Attention Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Mohsin Hamid

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

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

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and…

— Gary Paulsen

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

— Carl F. H. Henry

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

— Moses ibn Ezra

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with…

— Anonymous

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

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith