#readers

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#because #books #find #hope #i

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

— James Ellroy

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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

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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 Manguel

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Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery. ↗

— David Almond

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[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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As the hero learns, readers learn too. ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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