Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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'd been a thriller reader all my life.

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

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.