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

William Lyon Phelps

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Maureen Johnson

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

W. G. Sebald

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

Wallace Stevens

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

Wallace Stevens

I don’t feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

Lydia Davis

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

James Ellroy

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Daniel Handler

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don’t get read.

Lee Gutkind

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

John Gimlette

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Mid-grade readers don’t have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Judith Viorst

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished – polished! or else you insult your readers.

Margaret Deland

You don’t want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

Neal Stephenson

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Roland Barthes

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

Rita Mae Brown

Readers are what it’s all about, aren’t they? If not, why am I writing?

Ed McBain

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

Janet Evanovich

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Jeffery Deaver

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book’s eventual fate.

Edward Abbey

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

E. B. White

Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.

Avinash Kaushik

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Agatha Christie

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