Top Reader Quotes

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Reader Definition

(n.) One who reads.

(n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.

(n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.

(n.) A proof reader.

(n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

(n.) One who reads much; one who is studious.

(n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight, she said. If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll...

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the word...

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the firs...

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Suf...

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud....

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime...

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is s...

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt th...

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.