366 Quotes About Reader

They have trapped Blue into doing nothing, into being so inactive as to reduce his life to almost no life at all. Yes, says Blue to himself, that's what it feels like: like nothing at all. He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough - to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.

I have falling in love with reading.