Reader Quotes

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.