Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

Captures the reader with true magic.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

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

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'd been a thriller reader all my life.

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

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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

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

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

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.