Readers Quotes

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

Paulo Coelho

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

Michael Moorcock

Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of our profession. Every day, librarians must decide between a desire to preserve the privacy of our community members and offering services our communities demand. Every day, librarians must make a choice between doing what’s easy, doing what’s right, and determining what’s right in the first place. No textbook or mission statement or policy document can relieve us of the necessity to make those decisions, nor remove the complexity of those decisions. That’s why we are librarians and why librarians are professionals, not clerks. That’s why we are stewards within the communities we serve, not servants to them. That’s why we must shape the missions and the work of our organizations and communities, and not simply accept them.

R. David Lankes

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Alex Morritt

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

Diana Athill

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Amanda Craig

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.

Sara Sheridan

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

Aman Jassal

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

Aman Jassal

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

Aman Jassal

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Aman Jassal

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have falling in love with reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

Janae Mitchell

Crazy people love their Kindles.

Dermot Davis

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It not only means a lot to us to know you enjoyed our work, it inspires us to write more! Thank you!

David SterlingA. Sterling

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

Lang Leav

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

Roberto Bolaño

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass

John Scalzi

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

Pamela Glass Kelly

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame?

John Barth

My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.

A.P. Sweet

Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer’s is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes

Falcon Dove

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Rebecca Solnit

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Fay Weldon

Reading...inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won't get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.

Richelle E. Goodrich

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Darnaya Darice

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

Michael J. Kannengieser

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

Andrew Lennon

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Johnny Rich

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

Graham Moore

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

Harry Olsen

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Sara Sheridan

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Sara Sheridan

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

Adam Langer

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make up his own mind.

David Mitchell

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Shon Mehta

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Johnny Rich

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

Max Barry

To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.

Pat Conroy

This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers.Not infrequently I have been asked by friends of different callings in life to recommend them some book on mimicry which shall be reasonably short, well illustrated without being very costly, and not too hard to understand. I have always been obliged to tell them that I know of nothing in our language answering to this description, and it is largely as an attempt to remedy this deficiency that the present little volume has been written.

Reginald Crundall Punnett

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

Aman Jassal

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

Aman Jassal

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

C.S. Lewis

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess.

Charles Dickens

To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

Sarah Weeks

Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to equally as ambiguous characters and plot, leaving a reader with an ambiguous feeling of disappointment. That's one of the worst kinds.

Rebecca McKinsey

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