Readers Quotes

Readers Quote of the day

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

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

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

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

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

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

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Reading an author's Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.

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.

Writing is a never ending journey for me - not only for my own comfort, but as a strong medium for encouraging a healthy process of constructive thinking among my readers

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.