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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.”

I Can Self Stories Remember Reading Judging Reader Critical

Author:Hilary Mantel

“One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.”

Wells Book Reader Surprise Predictable Things I Love Surprise Me

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

Fool Reader Unsafe

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.”

Happens Novel Reader Hero Curious Suspense Novelists Suspense Novels

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.”

Knows Enough Reader Sophisticated

Author:Denise Mina

“Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.”

Men Has Beens Romance Loss Money Novel Reader Manners Representing Robbing Time And Money

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source: Letters

“If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.”

Ifs Giving Writing I Can Laughing Cry Emotional Reader Scene Cost Give Me Good Day Typewriters Have A Good Day Clout

Author:Alan Moore

“In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.”

Ifs Seems Film Audience Pieces Reader Pages Speed Checks Dialogue Pace Echoes Flip

Author:Alan Moore

“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”

Knows Heart Ends Stories Light Difficult Dark Morning Sun Reader Redemption Theme Take Me Optimist Happy Endings Tunnels

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!”

Book Reading Brother Reader Fellows My Brother Hypocrite

Book:The Flowers of Evil

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.”

Way Want Feels Long Stories Happens Fiction Reader Short Story Astonishing Everything Happens For A Reason

Author:Alice Munro

“I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.”

People Ideas Young Responsibility Modern Reader Ethics Appreciation Work Ethic Cowboy Impressive

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”

World Fiction Reader Fit Originals Masterpiece

Book:Lectures on Don Quixote

Source: Lectures on Don Quixote

“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.”

Writing Mind Book Girl Boys Reader Admirable

Book:Lectures on Russian Literature

Source: Lectures on Russian Literature

“I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.”

Literature Reader Argument Narrative

Author:Howard Nemerov

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Book:The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume

“Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.”

Has Beens Might Individual Attention Wonderful Reader Negative Awards Deserving

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.”

Ifs Book Might Form Turns My Own Numbers Effort Opinion Reader Independent Including Committed Reviews Disappointing

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.”

Ifs Knows Should May Art Sometimes Character Seems Reader Works Of Art Passages

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.”

Kind Use Economy Products Perspective Reader Advertising Meat Flags Tickets Headlines Prospects

Author:David Ogilvy

“Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.”

Ifs Painting Reader Advertising Abstract Advertisements Advertising Agencies Abstract Painting

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.”

Ifs Needs Looks Business Economy Reader Pages Cents Advertisements Editorials Advertising Agencies

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”

Author:Ben Okri

“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”

Ifs Writing Book Reading Creative Reader Range

Author:Ben Okri

“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”

Men Want Pain Literature Learning Reader Genius Organization Method Pearls Irregularity

Book:Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.”

Should Believe Children Book Kids Joy Turns Reading I Believe Quality Worry Reader More Time Quantity Introducing Lifelong Joy Of Reading

Author:James Patterson

“What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.”

People Ifs Hard Kids School Middle Reader High School Coming Out Competent Middle School

Author:James Patterson

“One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.”

Knows Book Facts Kids Interesting Reader Mass Adults Release Twilight Maximum Interesting Things Maximum Ride

Author:James Patterson

“There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.”

Needs Important States Problem Government School Attitude Reader Models Terrific Reluctant State Government School System

Author:James Patterson

“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”

Source: ... Yearbook

“I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!”

Ifs Writing Past Moving Grows Fiction Growing Up Reader Adults Teenager Cents

Author:Jodi Picoult

“For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.”

Ifs Mind Important Care Asks Opinion Issues Reader Don't Care I Don't Care Controversial Outlines Facets Controversial Issues

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.”

Way Firsts Answers Technology Fans Reader Active Obsessed Mail Website Fan Mail

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”

Needs Book Dies Reader Constant Defense Comes And Goes

Book:The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers

Source: The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers

“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

Book Use Reader

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“I was a very keen reader of science fiction.”

Fiction Reader Science Fiction

Author:Terry Pratchett

“One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.”

Firsts Stuff Common One Thing Reader

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.”

Want Kind Bigs Wanted Design College Reader

Author:Josh Radnor

“Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.”

Mind Lying Interest Pleasure Greater Reader Balance Overcoming Resistance Arrangements Spectators Observing

Author:Paul Rand

“I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.”

Able Literature Enjoy Relationship Reader Site Close Relationship

Author:Anne Rice

“I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.”

Way Writing Long Goal Teaching Reader Long Life

Author:Rick Riordan

“I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.”

Imagination Reader Wraps

Author:Rick Riordan