400 Quotes About Readers

And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers.

A reader lives many lives. The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re good and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.

Books are the flung-open windows to a parallel universe.

Read. Dream. Repeat.

When we read a book, though, we call it ours, don't we, and I have always said that's because readers make a book their own through reading it. They do half the work, with their own imaginations, fleshing things out, painting each character and place and event in more detail than we have actually set out on paper, and we writers merely set the readers on their way.

Text play greater role in transforming its readers

Some books send you around the world, while others send you around the bend.

Reading opens pockets of the mind.

Reading sparks writing.