400 Quotes About Readers

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you read but where you are at.

What a melancholy day!" I said. "Aren't you bored?""Not particularly. I am reading.

The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.

Readers and writers around the world have a cultural commitment with our time.

She loved it the way you can love only a certain number of arrangements of words across the span of a life . . . we had all loved something—some poem or passage or cluster of words—as much as Leslie loved Hannah's story.It was the reason we were all there.

Late into the night she reads, and the lamplight falls in a soft circle across her tented knees, across the warm blankets, across Luca's casting breath. In their new home, Lydia rereads Amor en los tiempos del colera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.

Sometimes, happiness is not found in success, but on the face of the person standing beside you when you succeed.

Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.