Reader Quotes

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

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

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

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

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

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.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.

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

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

I cherish my work and all of my readers.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

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

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.