Reader Quotes - Page 3

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rivers, Stopping, Stories

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  Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

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• Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

  A. S. Byatt

  Thinking

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• Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Mind, Needs

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

  Diane Setterfield

  Reading, Joy, Stage

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

  Roald Dahl

  Hate, Book, Reading

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• The more I suffer, the more I love.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Suffering

  "Fictional character: Michael Berg". "The Reader", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Angel, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 23, 2015

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• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

  David Kross

  Soul, One Thing

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

  Stendhal

  Writing, Soul, Sound

  Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Use It Or Lose It, Mind

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• I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.

  Emily Barton

  Country, Thinking, Our World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.88, Macmillan

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• What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  House, World, Firsts

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• Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

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• The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Song, Reading, Tired

  Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.104, Random House

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• There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.

  Sara Craven

  Fun, Book, Romance

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