Best 215 quotes in «readers quotes» category

In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown than you do. Never was there a more fatal mistake. It is this division between reader and writer, this humility on your part, these professional airs and graces on ours, that corrupt and emasculate the books which should be the healthy offspring of a close and equal alliance between us.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

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

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.

Its not over when the curtains come down, its over when YOU choose not to perform anymore.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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

Los lectores somos considerados lectores no sólo por leer infinidades de libros de distintos géneros o simplemente uno solo, no. Somos considerados lectores porque amamos la magia de las palabras, el como tenemos sentimientos encontrados con cualquier personaje, el como nos hace sentir cada historia que está escrita ahí, en ese gran y preciado tesoro llamado libro.

Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens

Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men do, perhaps because this kind of ambiguous floating and flirtation is just what a self-protective masculinity needs to keep away from.

Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sólo porque yo solía escribirlos. Los lectores de libros están tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversación con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahí.

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.

My penance for barely being present in the world, not the world between the pages of books, or the layered atmosphere of my own mind, but the world that is real to others

Maybe, in the warm embrace of storytelling, we can all feel less alone together.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands.

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

No really, Lainey. Give it a chance. Millions of readers can't be wrong." "That's like saying millions of boy-band fans can't be wrong," I mutter, but I flip through a few more pages.

Most readers have low standards. All they demand from a book is entertainment.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed under your bed – because, for starters, I’m not banning literature per se. I’m banning the reading of literature. Purchasing and collecting books and other forms of literature remains perfectly legitimate as long as you don’t peruse the literature at hand.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.

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

Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one else can enter.

Raining with words; words becomes sentences; sentences becomes a paragraph and paragraphs becomes a short story!

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away...scarcely opened until the fire needs kindling. The most ardent book-lovers are not always the greatest readers; indeed, the rabid bibliomaniac seldom reads at all. To him books are as ducats to the miser, something to be hoarded and not employed... So pleasant it is to buy book; so tiresome to utilize them.

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.

Readers make writers and writers make readers

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

Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can." [Blog entry, January 9, 2012]

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures.

Rayden Strong

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

Reading is an enlightenment of the soul.

Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc. because a beggar has nothing to lose but if a king loses everything suddenly and gets poor, then the readers or audience become so sad and feel like crying in the end!

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.

She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose houses she went visiting had found this out, and always hid away their story-books when she was expected to tea. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home.

Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support social and political change, including the redistribution of power. Perhaps nonfiction & the arts--literature, poetry & film--are potentially much better suited to the work of politically engaging audiences than the staid tools of the academy.

So many authors, so little time to disqualify them!

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

Sometimes, happiness is not found in success, but on the face of the person standing beside you when you succeed.

So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.