Reader Quotes

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

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

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

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

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

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

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

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.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

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.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

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

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.