“Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.”
Gene Shalit
“Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.”
Ben Jonson
“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”
Dean Acheson
“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.”
Victor Hugo
“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”
Friedrich von Schlegel
