Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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 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 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.

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 television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

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

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.