366 Quotes About Reader

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.

But I’m sure you, dear Reader, are clevererthan that. For if it really took only so long as Lydia suspected to save the Zs, then there would be much less of this book left than there is, wouldn’t there?

Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It's revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling

The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.

Naturally, every reader understands and draws meaning as its level that, what one writes, not what one conceives since as one's outward, speaks and displays, not inward.

لحسن حظ الكاتب فإنه لا يسمع ما يقوله الفارئ ، إنما يتخيله.ولحسن حظ الكاتب أيضا أن عنقه بعيد عن يدي القارئ وعن كل الأسلحة الحادة التي في بيته

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a new and dangerous thought, without any break. If you succeed in this, the business is done. The reader will not forget - the new words will plague and torment him until he has accepted them.

I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books—I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you don’t finish all the books you’ve bought, you’re not allowed to buy more.