Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.