Quotes about Readers

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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat pri — David Almond
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person t — Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if th — Augustine of Hippo
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of — Alberto Manguel, Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge
For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was — Gwenn Wright
Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens — Shilpi, Hangover
There is nothing more amazing than being with the one you love. — Shilpi, Hangover
There is only one happiness in life. To love, and to be loved — Shilpi, Hangover
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 — Kage Baker
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their ha — Unknown
Language is artificial, but our feelings are natural, inner, and universal. There are many languages, but feelings are t — Debasish Mridha
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowle — Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to o — Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however di — Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the read — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combinati — Mary Gaitskill