400 Quotes About Readers

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

لا تقاس قيمة كتاب بسعة انتشاره ولا بحفاوة القراء به فحسب، وإنما تقاس - إلى جانب ذلك- بنوعية القراء الذين احتفوا به وتناولوه بالقراءة والاستيعاب، ثم تقاس بعمق الأثر الذي خلفته هذه القراءة في عقولهم وقلوبهم.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

Writing is a solitary pleasure. Reading is a solitary pleasure. Does this mean that the writer and the readers do not like humanity?On the contrary! Beyond time and space, beyond colors and customs, the writer and the readers share dreams, knowledge, hopes, imagination, and love of mankind.

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.