400 Quotes About Readers

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story