I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those...

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

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

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the...

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well...

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people’s defenses.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

If I’ve vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader’s mind.

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

You’re reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.

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

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are...

I do not fear that “future generations will not read novels,” etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(…)art is not the...

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It’s a moment in which your work...

Writing is something that I’ve always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to...

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, a...

There is no better adviser than a good book.

In college, you’re kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

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 themselves to that...

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

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted,...

But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds.

A writer’s thoughts can act as an Aladdin’s lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

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