Best 533 quotes in «reader quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

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 a precocious reader.

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

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

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

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 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 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.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

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.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

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

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

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

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

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

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 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.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?'