400 Quotes About Readers

The ‘right reading’ is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we’ve read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we’ve truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

People who learn primarily from reading and principally communicate through writing generally possess a highly developed internal world, a more refined sense of self-control, and a greater sensitivity to honoring social boundaries.

A reader [is] a time traveler.

Being a writer means helping others through your experiences.It is giving the reader the chance to take in something new, or something they may wish to brave. It is a loving and hostile touch, a patient and eager ghost, and above all... a test of time.

When you read a poem, you may not get out of it all that the poet put into it, but you are different from the poet. You’re different from everybody else who is going to read the poem, so you should take from it what you need. Use it personally.

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Writing is a never ending journey for me - not only for my own comfort, but as a strong medium for encouraging a healthy process of constructive thinking among my readers