She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it.
Eleanor BrownTags: reading books readers sisters
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.
C.S. LewisTags: humor reading books literature criticism interpretation readers reading-books academics
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 ManguelTags: inspirational reading readers reading-books readers-and-writers reasons-for-reading
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
Reese WitherspoonTags: readers
Tags: reading read readers reading-books
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.
Neil GaimanTags: writing write stories readers neil-gaiman-on-writing
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
Kate DiCamilloTags: inspirational reading readers bookselling
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
Augustine of HippoTags: truth mind light book revelation readers
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
David Foster WallaceTags: inspirational writers readers
And she is the reader
who browses the shelf
and looks for new worlds
but finds herself.
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