Top 55 Reading Readers Writers Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.
Pankaj Mishra
#3. Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
Lloyd Alexander
#5. Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
David Richards
#6. Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories ... The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
Elena Ferrante
#7. The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.
R.M. Engelhardt
#8. Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.
Thomas C. Foster
#9. Literature is language charged with meaning
Ezra Pound
#10. 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
#11. The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened
L.J. DeVet
#12. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.
Ozzie Cheek
#15. This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)
Steven Heighton
#17. Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage.
CJ Fosdick
#18. What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#19. Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
Rudy Francisco
#20. If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.
Aman Jassal
#21. This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
John Hodgman
#22. A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow
#23. I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
John Green
#24. The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Robert Morgan
#25. Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.
Nicholaa Spencer
#26. I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote (NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,
John Green
#27. Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti
Matthew D. Forgenti
#28. Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
Steven Spielberg
#29. I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
Jerry Spinelli
#30. I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
Ann Brashares
#31. Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.
Henry James
#32. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.
Thomas Swick
#33. Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique ... and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity - a bookish triumvirate.
Briar Kit Esme
#36. Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place!
Denise Walter McConduit
#37. Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.
A.D. Posey
#39. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.
Martha Sweeney
#40. The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
Brandt Legg
#41. I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog
Robin Hawdon
#42. We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.
Roger Angell
#43. Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.
Nicholaa Spencer
#44. When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#45. Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood
#46. Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.
Aman Jassal
#47. There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing
and reading
is a solitary business. And it's good to know I'm not alone.
Shannon Celebi
#50. When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds
Niall Williams
#51. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
#52. If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#53. It's remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.
Brandt Legg
#54. 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
#55. when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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