“ What I can say with honesty is that my research in Russia and in Germany has brought me nothing but the worsening of my eyesight and the waste of years of my life. And I did it all for you. Nick Tosches
“ A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
“ Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes Falcon Dove
“ Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. Alberto Manguel
“ Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.''What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than t… David Baldacci
“ The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b… Robert Frost
“ The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people! Wyketha K Parkman
“ 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… Salman Rushdie
“ Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. Larry McMurtry
“ The synopsis looked good,the cover looked nice,you opened the book,and began a new life.You found a new home,you met some new friends,you kept on reading,hoping it would never end.You danced through t… Unknown
“ The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I… Alberto Manguel
“ Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too. Neil Gaiman
“ If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. Julian Barnes
“ For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It… David SterlingA. Sterling
“ Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything… Steven Pressfield
“ It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the libr… Anne Fadiman
