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As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

Books belong to their readers.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

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 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.

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

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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

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