Reader Quotes

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

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

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things.

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

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

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

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

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

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.

With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she would win.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

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

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.