Reader Quotes

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

~ Aman Jassal

My novels are set in a global space and pace. However, I have never visited most of the places. I wrote my first book in London but the story took the reader to places in Mexico, Denmark and Russia, and carefully avoided London. I access these global locations with my feet planted in front of my computer. I will use my internet connection to carefully enter the streets of a foreign city and find out how long it will take my main character to get from the airport to the city center – and if there are any shortcuts on the way. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.

~ Enock Maregesi

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.

~ Ernst Jentsch

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

~ S.a. Tawks

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

~ Sara Sheridan

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

~ Debasish Mridha

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

~ Brook Tesla

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

~ S.a. Tawks

I am what I have ever read

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

~ Annie Dillard

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

~ Jodi Picoult

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.

~ Maria Stoica

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.

~ Dani Harper

It is better to be a reader than richer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education stimulates self-study.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

~ Anthony Powell

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

~ Félix J. Palma

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

~ S.a. Tawks

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

~ S.a. Tawks

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

~ S.a. Tawks

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

~ S.a. Tawks

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

~ S.a. Tawks

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

~ S.a. Tawks

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

~ S.a. Tawks

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

~ S.a. Tawks

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

~ S.a. Tawks

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

~ S.a. Tawks

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

~ S.a. Tawks

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

~ S.a. Tawks

Don't dare try to be heroes.

~ S.a. Tawks

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

~ S.a. Tawks

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

~ S.a. Tawks

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

~ S.a. Tawks

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

~ S.a. Tawks