It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the...

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers.Not infrequently I have been asked by friends of different callings in life to recommend them some book...

A good reader has the power to move the world.

Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by all readers. Most of the time it’s somewhere in between, but...

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

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

Bookish folk aren’t what they used to be. Introverted, reserved, studious. There was a time when bookish folk would steer clear of trendy bars, dinner occasions and gatherings. Any social or public encounters would be...

Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung rückübersetzen...

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.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we’ve gone through for you.

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...

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

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...

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Crazy people love their Kindles.

The greatest solitude; reading!

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

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...

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn.

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

Fall in love with the first one and the magic never fails to continue.

Don’t be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be...

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.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Are you a reader? Well, good for you!

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and...

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers – as many different responses as there are readers.

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

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...

With my sort of book there’s no resolution, because there’s no solution. The problems aren’t answered in the end because there is no answer. They’re problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved...

Good writing ain’t necessarily good reading.

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.

He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or...

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

Liquid quotes are more drinkable. Make your writing as fluid as possible, so people can chug it in one tasty gulp.

I don’t laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

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