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You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. -- Justin Cronin
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. -- John Barton
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. -- Dermot Healy
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. -- Hilary Mantel
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. -- Neil Gaiman
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. -- Kevin Wilson
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order. -- Edward M. Lerner
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. -- Marco Arment
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. -- Julian Barnes
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on. -- Michel Faber
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading. -- Jeaniene Frost
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways. -- Katherine Paterson
I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me! -- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people. -- Autumn Reeser
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers. -- James Patterson
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. -- Margaret Mahy
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that. -- Garth Stein
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books. -- Louis Sachar
If we value all readers, we must value all reading. -- Donalyn Miller
For people who are readers, reading is important to them. -- Jeff Bezos
The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable. -- Charlie Huston
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. -- Donalyn Miller
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. -- Alberto Manguel
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. -- Khaled Hosseini
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual. -- Sol Stein
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. -- Julia Glass
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. -- Thomas Swick
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. -- R. A. Salvatore
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. -- Carol Anshaw
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. -- Harold Bloom
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. -- Orson Scott Card
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. -- Libba Bray
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. -- Chris Hughes
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. -- Andy Wilkinson
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. -- John Steinbeck
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment. -- Jeff Abbott
We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. -- Pamela Glass Kelly
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. -- Arlo Guthrie
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. -- Pankaj Mishra
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone. -- Alberto Manguel
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide. -- Joseph Sugarman
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. -- Robert Morgan
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia. -- Gayle Forman
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. -- Ben Okri
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
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. -- Lee Child
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading. -- Alberto Manguel

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