400 Quotes About Readers

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands.

A good book is a subtle whisperer.

Buying, borrowing, or stealing the book is the easy part.

Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.

اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.