1.
Women are books, and men the readers be.
Benjamin Franklin
'Females are volumes, and males the perusers shall be.'
2.
I hope to offend every reader.
Milo Yiannopoulos
I anticipate provoking every reader.
3.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
David Carson
Entice the reader to engage by decoding. Disorder can fascinate and captivate.
4.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.
Rumi
6.
Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Jan Tschichold
7.
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
Edgar Allan Poe
8.
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
Nella Larsen
9.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett
11.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen Ambrose
12.
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
Richard Armitage
13.
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
Kelly Gallagher
17.
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
Erik Spiekermann
18.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
19.
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
Jim Trelease
20.
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
22.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz
25.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy
26.
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
Zadie Smith
27.
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny the Younger
28.
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
W. G. Sebald
29.
Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
Harry S. Truman
31.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley
32.
I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
John Petrucci
33.
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus
34.
You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!
Dr. Seuss
35.
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Margaret Atwood
37.
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
Christopher Logue
38.
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.
Pascal Mercier
39.
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
Horace Walpole
40.
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
Marie de Gournay
41.
My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
Barry Lane
43.
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
Richard Peck
44.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
Terri Windling
45.
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Barbara Tuchman
47.
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
Louise Rosenblatt
48.
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
Robert Bly
49.
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Walter Benjamin