Reader Quotes

Women are books, and men the readers be.

I hope to offend every reader.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

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.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

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.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Better readers are better thinkers.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start