Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the brightest passages but left out deeper contexts—eig...

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a...

The Second Common Reader

A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as life. It requires you, the reader, to fill in an outline of words with vivid pictures drawn subconsciously from your own life,...

Barbara Kingsolver

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, im...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints

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.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

Encounter

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

The Edogawa Rampo Reader

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

The Giant's House

I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?

Growing Up When Times Were Simple

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

The Black Book

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. ...

Jeff Kinney

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

Christopher Golden

A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.

Hopeless

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It