Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

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.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

I try not to bore my readers.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I was a precocious reader.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?