Reader Quotes
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
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.
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.
In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.