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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. — Colum McCann

reading is a private activity. A book fits a reader like tailored clothing. — Faraaz Kazi

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly

I have a fear of dying partway through a book - of never knowing the ending. It's silly, I know, but it makes me a quick reader. — Steve Robinson

A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world. — Kerry Cohen

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global. — Maaza Mengiste

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? — Erik Naggum

The reader wants to be able to see the book as if they are watching a movie. — LaQuita Cameron

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better. — Paulo Coelho

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes. — Rebecca Stead

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. — Sara Nelson

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. — K.J. Kilton

To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it. — Ayn Rand

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect. — Garth Greenwell

Each book has a reader, and each reader has a book. — Carmela Dutra

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series. — Cullen Bunn

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull

A book brings its own history to the reader. — Alberto Manguel

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader. — Aman Jassal

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid. — Ciara Renee

every time a reader leaves a book review, a crippled monkey gets a free banana. I — Bobby Adair

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel

Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it. — Michael Carroll

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life. — Elizabeth Langston

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so. — S.A. Tawks

Please tell me you're not going to leave 'cause I'm dying to know what happens! I'm a romance reader and this is like a live action romance book! — Kelly Elliott

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. — Susan Wiggs

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers. — Jeffery Deaver

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. — Julian Barnes

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. — Jonathan Zittrain

Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

A good reader has the power to move the world. — Aman Jassal

A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world — Elena Ferrante

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Unknown

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem

Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book! — Gabrielle Dubois

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. — Samuel Johnson

Everyone is a reader... Some just haven't found their favourite book yet. — Anonymous

There is no better adviser than a good book. — Debasish Mridha

We expect a great man to be a good reader. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 Fadiman

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work. — Jeff VanderMeer

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering. — Mark Rubinstein

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book. — Joshua Foer

A good friend of mine once said, I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. — Marion Dane Bauer

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book. — Pattiann Rogers

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different. — John Darnielle

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. — Barbara Delinsky

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P.L. Travers

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater

Diabetic Diet. The premise of this book is to enable the reader to choose healthy foods by following a healthier more nutritious diet plan. — Speedy Publishing

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well. — Terry Pratchett

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it. — William Golding

Books are a treasured friend, however it's difficult to explain it to a non-reader. — Aman Jassal

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. — Ali Smith

Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was not a big comic-book reader. — Brad Bird

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. — Mark Haddon

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. — Dakota Blue Richards

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night. — Stephanie Laurens

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in. — David A. Adler

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing. — Gabrielle Dubois

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book. — Libba Bray

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. — Lee Child

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. — Johnny Rich

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction. — Greg Van Eekhout

The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. — Elizabeth Bowen

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. — Eoin Colfer

Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse. — Shandy L. Kurth

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space. — Jeanette O'Hagan

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader. — Carl Sagan

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. — Romesh Gunesekera

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. — Nicole Krauss

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. — A.W. Tozer

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page. — Kim Lehman

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance. — Bobbie Ann Mason

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author. — Charles Lamb

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. — Kanye West

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married. — Stephen King

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez