99 Quotes About Readers-and-writers

There's something sexy about word play and metaphors. It's like a story is being told between the lines as well as on them.

Desire for books, desire to read.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

We read to learn.

I never forget that a book is not an end in itself. Just like a newspaper or a magazine, a book is a means of communication, which is why I try to grab the reader by the throat and not let go to the end. I don't always succeed, of course; readers tend to be elusive. Who is my reader?

Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live

There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life.

...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.