Reader Quotes
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![Anne Fadiman](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1202836366i/7982.jpg)
“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
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![Ursula K. Le Guin](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244291425i/874602._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
![Vladimir Nabokov](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651442178i/5152._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
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![Jennifer Niven](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1601577087i/45592._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader”
― Holding Up the Universe
― Holding Up the Universe
![David Almond](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205349967i/13652._CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.”
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![Susan Cain](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1644435084i/4101935._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.
Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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![Alberto Manguel](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227041892i/3602._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”
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![Vladimir Nabokov](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651442178i/5152._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”
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![Alberto Manguel](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227041892i/3602._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
![Kevin Smokler](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542760844i/445848._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”
― Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
― Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
![Laini Taylor](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224474224i/324620._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
![Alberto Manguel](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227041892i/3602._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
![Bernhard Schlink](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1289574162i/2894._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?”
― The Reader
― The Reader
![Johnny Rich](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1366663848i/156829._UY200_CR14,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
― The Human Script
― The Human Script
![Michel Houellebecq](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587317406i/32878._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.”
― Soumission
― Soumission
“Some people see a bookshop as an archive, or a shrine, or even a time machine. But I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.”
― Tilly and the Bookwanderers
― Tilly and the Bookwanderers
![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”
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![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by "anyone”. A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against "the others". It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent "access" (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
![Aman Jassal](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442957874i/7499993._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.”
― Rainbow - the shades of love
― Rainbow - the shades of love
![Jodi Picoult](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.”
― Off the Page
― Off the Page
![Diane Setterfield](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533836832i/22665.jpg)
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
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