Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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 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.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

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.

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

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

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

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Those who write clearly have readers.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

When I read, I'm purely a reader

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.

Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.