Reader Quotes - page 5

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(. (Kate DiCamillo)
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. View quote
André Gide
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation. View quote
Alberto Manguel
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters. View quote
Alberto Manguel
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth. View quote
Alberto Manguel
A book brings its own history to the reader. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being. (Alberto Manguel)
Every text assumes a reader. View quote
Alberto Manguel
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. View quote
Oswald Spengler
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. View quote
Ronald Knox
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. View quote
Mark Twain
...an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell...-the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences. View quote
Mark Twain
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. View quote
Arthur Koestler
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children. View quote
J. D. Salinger
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
But metre itself implies a passion, i. e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. View quote
Karl Marx
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer! View quote
Linda Sue Park
The man is a humbug - a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull... View quote
C. S. Lewis