Reader Quotes

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.

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

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.