Reader Quotes
237 quotes
"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."
"In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader."
"I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?"
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
"If I told you that my global audience has shot up 100% in the last six months, what would you say? If you were to say, “So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base."
"We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are."
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
"We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun."
"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."
"Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good."
"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."
"Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery."
"What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing."
"Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot."
"Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader."
"Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!"
"The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader."
"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."
"Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author."
"She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages."
"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
"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."
"Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader."
"If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write."
"Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out."
"We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life"
"Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost"
"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."
"I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew."
"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
"As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing."
"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."
Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
"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."
"Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short."
"A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend."
"Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!"
"Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"I’m so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own."
"If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life."
"Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!"
"A reader knows the mind of sacred souls."
"You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily."
"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."
"I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure"
"A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader."
"Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway."
"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."
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