Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I love connecting with readers!

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

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

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

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

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

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

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

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