#reader

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#alone

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#readers #reading #reading-books #dance

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#e-readers #kindle #reading #read

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... ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#nabokov #quote #reader #reading #brain

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#feel #fiction #i #i feel #input

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Mark Twain

#discover #his #ideally #order #own

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

#editor #intended #journal #literary #reader

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

#desired #effect #had #poetry #reader

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#fellow #hypocrite #reader

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level. ↗

— John le Carre

#down #ear #entertained #entertainments #feel