As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books reader government
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.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books dreams literature reader library
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.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: reading books stories story reader
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Vladimir NabokovTags: reader need imagine exist
I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.
Tara Bray SmithTags: reader author pen marginalia
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
Kevin SmoklerTags: reading books reader fun bibliophile bibliophiles
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.
Anne FadimanTags: reading books reader bibliophile bibliophiles
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave FlaubertTags: writing writers reader quality taste
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Bernhard SchlinkBooks. 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.
David AlmondTags: inspirational advice books adventure book reader discovery readers covers
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