Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.