Reader Quotes - Page 2

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

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

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

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

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

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

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

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

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.

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

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

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

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.

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

I am what I have ever read

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.

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.

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.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

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.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

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

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

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

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

There is no better adviser than a good book.

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

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

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.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

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

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

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

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

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.

I take in all the colorful locks that line the bridge. Each one told a story. Each lock represented a relationship that was once special, whether it ended or turned into true happiness. The locks represented a past, present, and a possible future.

A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.

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

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.