Reader Quotes

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.

~ David Almond

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

~ Fran Lebowitz

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!

~ Gabrielle Dubois

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.

~ Debasish Mridha

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.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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?

~ Gustave Flaubert

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.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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.

~ Georges Bataille

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.

~ Cheryl Alleway

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ Ben Oliveira

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Sufferings and surprizing Adventures (as the Booksellers might indite it), I know that the great Part of the World would not believe the Passages there related, by reason of the Strangeness of them, but I cannot help their Unbelief; and if the Reader considers them to be but dark Conceits, then let him bethink himself that Humane life is quite out of the Light and that we are all Creatures of Darknesse.

~ Peter Ackroyd

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.

~ Anne Fadiman

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.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

~ Alberto Manguel

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

~ Kevin Smokler

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

~ Alberto Manguel

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

~ Alberto Manguel

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.

~ Alberto Manguel

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

~ Lawrence Clark Powell

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.

~ Alberto Manguel

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

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.

~ Alberto Manguel

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

~ Sofija

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

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.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I’m so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own.

~ Paula Gruben

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.

~ Kamand Kojouri

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

~ Kamand Kojouri