Browsing Topic Best Reader Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles….He’s our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

As a writer I’m essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

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.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading – on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

I don’t inflict horrors on readers.

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don’t know that I am their reader.

I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

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.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

There are those who believe that the value of a children’s book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that’s huge.