Reader Quotes - Page 4

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

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

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.

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

It ain't just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

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.

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

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

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.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds.

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.

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.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.-Suzanne Steele

What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?

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

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

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

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

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

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

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

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

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.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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