Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you,...
The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditab...
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
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.
And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the m...
Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away...scarcely opened...
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
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 ot...
Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
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