"There is a sense in which every great book is always over the head of the reader: he can never fully comprehend it. That is why these books are great teachers; they demand the attention of the reader and keep his intelligence on the stretch."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
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philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
"The reader collaborates with the author in every book, or The reader is co-author in every book."
— Maurice Barrès French novelist 1862 - 1923
Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur
Source: Biographical notice http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/maurice-barres-499.php on Evene
"My brother was always glued to his books, an ardent reader and an educationist."
— Manmohan Singh 13th Prime Minister of India 1932
Surjit Singh, his younger brother, as quoted in "Singh brothers see bright future for economy" http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-05-20/news/27389027_1_manmohan-singh-surjit-singh-big-brother, The Economic Times (20 May 2004)
"Not every poet is a great reader of his own work."
— David Yezzi American poet 1966
Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)
"Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him."
— V.S. Pritchett British writer and critic 1900 - 1997
V. S. Pritchett, The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980) [Random House, ISBN 0-394-74683-X], "Edmund Wilson: Towards Revolution," p. 141
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
"The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read."
— Mortimer J. Adler American philosopher and educator 1902 - 2001
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
"Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book."
— Ben Jonson English writer 1572 - 1637
To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10
"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."
— Alberto Manguel writer 1948
Zdroj: The Library at Night
"Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head."
— Basil Bunting Poet 1900 - 1985
I SUGGEST Advice to Young Poets Basili Bunting Poetry Archive, Durham University Library 190
I SUGGEST Advice to Young Poets
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
"That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away."
— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784
The Life of Dryden
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Kontext: It is not by comparing line with line, that the merit of great works is to be estimated, but by their general effects and ultimate result. It is easy to note a weak line, and write one more vigorous in its place; to find a happiness of expression in the original, and transplant it by force into the version: but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
"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 Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947
"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 Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist 1899 - 1996
As quoted in The New York Times (2 July 1978)
"The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book."
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
"Poetry" (1977)
"There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead."
— Robertson Davies, kniha A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3)."
— Vladimir Nabokov, kniha Lectures on Literature
Zdroj: Lectures on Literature (1980)
"He commenced a systematic search of the cabin; but his attention was soon riveted by the books which seemed to exert a strange and powerful influence over him, so that he could scarce attend to aught else for the lure of the wondrous puzzle which their purpose presented to him.
Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. All of these he examined, but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought."
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, kniha Tarzan of the Apes
Zdroj: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 7 : The Light of Knowledge
"Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!"
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
"To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft."
Metaphors of Reading, p. 168.
A History of Reading (1996)
"Whoever said, he/she is a proud non-reader of books is living in oblivion."
— Gaurav Sharma (author) Author and novelist 1992
World Book Day (2018)
"Full of spirit, wit and good sense and as free of humbug as the man himself, The Freethinker's Prayer Book by Khushwant Singh, is a book of inspiration, comfort and entertainment for every discerning reader."
— Khushwant Singh Indian novelist and journalist 1915 - 2014
Quoted in The Freethinker's Prayer Book by Khushwant Singh – Advance Book Review, 21 December 2013, Latest Book Reviews Net http://latestbookreviews.net/the-freethinkers-prayer-book-by-khushwant-singh-book-review-release-date/,