Quotes About Readers

Questo posto è un mistero, Julian. Un santuario. Ogni libro, ogni volume che vedi, ha un 'anima. L'anima di chi l'ha scritto, e l'anima di coloro che l'hanno letto e hanno vissuto e sognato con lui. Ogni volta che un libro cambia di mano, ogni volta che qualcuno fa scivolare lo sguardo sulle sue pagine, il suo spirito cresce e si rafforza.

Ogni libro, ogni volume possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e l'anima di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This

Cada livro, cada volume que vês, tem uma alma. A alma de quem o escreveu, e as almas daqueles que o leram e viveram e sonharam com ele. Cada vez que um livro muda de mãos, cada vez que alguém passa o olhar pelas suas páginas, o seu espírito cresce e torna-se mais forte.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

I wish they'd make a law that all reissued books had to have a little sticker on the front cover so us readers wouldn't buy something we've already got.

Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark. Thanks for the encouragement.

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.

A novel without readers is still a novel. It has meaning, since it has had at least one reader, the person who wrote it. Its range of meanings, however, is quite limited. Add readers, add meaning.

poem is an experiment with and in language, an attempt to discover how best to capture its subject and make readers see it anew.

It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.

But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?

My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Publisher wishes to point out that no car designers were harmed in the research and writing of this book. Upon reading the book however, readers may decide that perhaps some should have been!

Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or schools of thought. They're not born when they're printed; in fact, they only start to live once they're read. So first of all, we thank you, reader. You dignify this work we do, and we're sincerely grateful for your time and attention.

In other words, in an age of great shifts in education, very little has shifted when it comes to the teaching of adolescent readers. The teaching of reading remains stuck in a paradigm that doesn't work, and when students are stuck in a paradigm that doesn't work, there are dire consequences: •

National Writing Project sites: "Students need to read like writers and they need to write like readers.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

Day's innovation was to realize that his readers could become his product and the advertisers his customers. His goal became to sell as many minutes of his readers' attention as possible to the advertisers.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Cuando el autor establece una comparación entre el Antiguo y el Nuevo Testamento, nunca lo hace en el sentido de advertir a los lectores en contra del Antiguo Testamento. Sólo pretende demostrar la superioridad del Nuevo Testamento;