Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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 try to leave out the parts readers skip.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was a precocious reader.

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

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 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.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.