Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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 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 feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

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

I don't inflict horrors on 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 it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

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

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

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

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

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

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 an avid biography reader.

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

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

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.