Able Quote by William Safire

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

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

— Helen Dunmore

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

— Dean Koontz

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

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

— William Lyon Phelps

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reading expands the mind; just like a book, open it.”

— self

As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If…

— John Edgar Wideman

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

— Douglas Wilson

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story. I'm going…

— Celeste Ng

“...A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's brain and…

— Kevin Maney