400 Quotes About Readers

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

Most readers have low standards. All they demand from a book is entertainment.

With Writing, You Lose Yourself, Find Yourself, and Become Someone Else. Writing Changes The Writer and The Reader. It Goes to The Core of Your Being, Challenges Your Pre-Suppositions. It Leaves You Satisfied, and Unsatisfied.

Writers are only ever as good as their readers.

Art goes both ways. Writers tell stories & think they mean one thing. Readers take stories into their own lives & they mean something else.