Reader Quotes

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

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

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

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

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

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

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

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

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.