Reader Quotes

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

~ S.a. Tawks

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

~ S.a. Tawks

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

~ S.a. Tawks

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

~ S.a. Tawks

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

~ S.a. Tawks

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

~ S.a. Tawks

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

~ S.a. Tawks

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

~ S.a. Tawks

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

~ S.a. Tawks

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

~ Aman Jassal

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

~ Anna Quindlen

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by anyone”. A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against the others. It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent access (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.

~ Don Delillo

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

~ Johnny Rich

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

~ Carl William Brown

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

~ Aman Jassal

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated out the materials of his work, during reading separates out again the unformed and the formed aspects of the book—and if the reader were to work through the book according to his own idea, a second reader would refine it still more, with the result that, since the mass that had been worked through would constantly be poured into fresh vessels, the mass would finally become an essential component—a part of the active spirit.Through impartial rereading of his book the author can refine his book himself. With strangers the particular character is usually lost, because the talent of fully entering into another person’s idea is so rare. Often even in the author himself. It is not a sign of superior education and greater powers to justifiably find fault with a book. When receiving new impressions, greater sharpness of mind is quite natural.

~ Novalis

Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.

~ Salil Jha

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Read different to think differently, world is already into rat race.

~ Aman Jassal

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

~ Salil Jha

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things.

~ Robert M. Fowler

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

~ Saleem Sharma

Every great writer is a great reader.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hey, GreenHollyWood ruin my vision. I don't want to be gay... because what's shown in Mr.Robot it's geysish, mother fucker!

~ Deyth Banger

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted, if any one can do it; and I leave the ideas that are suggested in the conclusion of the work to rest on the mind of the reader; certain as I am that when opinions are free, either in matters of govemment or religion, truth will finally and powerfully prevail.

~ Thomas Paine

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

~ M.r. Mathias

With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she would win.

~ Sarah J. Maas

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

~ Aman Jassal

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

~ Aman Jassal

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People intrigue me. Life intrigues me. I see a story behind every pair of eyes I meet, history in every voice. I'll see someone wearing a smile and wonder what put it there. Words allow me to immerse myself in a whole other world. I get to become a different person.

~ Nicola Haken

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

~ John Connolly

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

~ David Scheier

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

~ Joshua Cohen