Readers And Writers Quotes

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“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

“Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Bernard Cornwall

“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

“Books are the flung-open windows to a parallel universe.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.”
― Brian Andreas

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”
― Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.”
― Tina Smith

“I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.”
― Harold Bloom

“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!”
― Dick Meyer, Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium

“Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“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 was on my mind.”
― Kage Baker

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”
― Christopher K. Krebs

“I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.”
― John Fowles

“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the rising flood of warm air, carrying the sand from the south. The Alps are folded above in the flickering light. And on the desk in the room beneath lies the writing which insists that the only escape is through the absolute destruction of everything you have ever known, loved, cared for, believed in, even the shell of yourself must be discarded with contempt; for freedom costs no less than everything, including your generosity, self-respect, integrity, tenderness - is that really what i wanted to say? It's what I have said. Worse still, I have pointed out the sheer creative joy of this ferocious destructiveness and the liberating wonder of violence. And these are dangerous messages for which I am no longer responsible.”
― Patricia Duncker

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development — part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early modern" — has shaped the work of many of our most celebrated authors, whose personal experiences indelibly and visibly mark their writing. It's fair to say that the fiction and poetry of many of the finest writers of the past century or so — and I'm thinking here of Conrad, Proust, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Plath, Ellison, Lowell, Sexton, Roth, and Coetzee, to name but a few — have been deeply autobiographical. The link between the life and the work is one of the things we're curious about and look for when we pick up the latest book by a favorite author.”
― James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

“Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.”
― C. D. Wright

“1. Humans were weakest when they believed someone protected them CHAP18, PG200
2.No matter how good a mentor, a person who wasn't determined couldn't survive in this world CHAP 20:EP 5, PG 223
3. The treasure trove doesn't just contain treasures. CHAP 22 PG 235
4. The person trying to be all alone was the busiest. CH 36 PG 409
5. You have already forgotten the determination of your first attempt." CH 41 , PG 486
6. "If you can't find the meaning of life in front of you, didn't you decide to live for the greater cause? CH 41, PG 486
7. "Human beings aren't slaves of desire. They are animals fighting their desires." CH 137 PG 1595
8. It isn't important to read the letters. The important thing is where the
letters lead you. Pg 1963 ch170
9. At first, I only saw the main character's position. The second reading
showed the position of the supporting character and the third reading
showed the position of the enemy.
The story changed every time I read it.  Pg 1964”
― shing shong, OMNISCIENT READER'S VIEWPOINT

“I often tell my friends that I write to reach people who are like me. If you find this book fun to read, or even meaningful, you are like me, at least in that particular way. I may never know who you are, but I firmly believe that you are out there.”
― Sung-Il Kim, Blood of the Old Kings

“Writing is one of the best gifts, in my opinion. To possess the potential to touch the lives of strangers around the world is not only amazing, it's miraculous.”
― Jennifer Spredemann

“La literatura sirve para vivir otras vidas más allá de la vida patética que nos tocó vivir. La literatura sirve para escarmentar en cabeza ajena. La literatura es catártica, medicinal, terapéutica. La literatura equivale a escudriñar los cerebros de otros (...)”
― Liliana Blum, Cara de liebre

“Becoming a writer is a privilege, but being a reader is always a blessing.”
― Manisha Manjari

“I hope readers see themselves in my characters, finding strength and insight through their growth. Ultimately, I want readers to feel empowered and inspired by the resilience and transformation they witness in my stories.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“Write about what you know and tell the truth. It is powerful and resonant for the reader.”
― Vindy Teja & Anna Brooke, WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within

“Readers pretended to want happy, hopeful endings, but James understood that what they really wanted was an excuse to continue reveling in darkness.”
― Ben Spencer, Many Savage Moons

“While there are basic writing skills that every writer should implement when needed, you will take larger strides by developing your personal writing style. There is no need to convey your thoughts like the next writer. Your readers want to hear you. Make them fall in love with your way of expression.”
― Robin S. Baker

“To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it. Begin not by sitting on the bench among the judges but by standing in the dock with the criminal.”
― Virginia Woolf