366 Quotes About Reader

Writing a book is one of the very few sensible reasons for not having time to read a book.

Every great writer is a great reader.

I think one of the best gifts you could offer me, as a writer, is to engage with my words, to tell me how they felt to you. To let me, for a moment, see my words through your eyes. And it feels like you read my words so carefully, that you were gentle with them, nurturing. I feel loved and seen by the way you responded. Thank you for caring for the words that rise from my soul.

Read more; live more.

You are not always a reader, you are occasionally a human.

The power of one sentence, with the right choice of words, at the right moment, being read with the right state of mind, is the greatest influence in a reader's life.

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

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.

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.