Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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.

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.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 cherish my work and all of my readers.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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

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

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

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 I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

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

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

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.

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

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

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

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.