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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

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    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.

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    I was a precocious reader.

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

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    I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

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    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.

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    Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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

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

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

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

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

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    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?

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

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    My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

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    My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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    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?'