Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

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

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

I try not to bore my readers.

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

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

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

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

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

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

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I was a precocious reader.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.