366 Quotes About Reader

I don’t think the reader needs protecting. If you guide the reader steadily, they’ll follow you.

A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight," she said. "If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.

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

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

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.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.