Reader Quotes

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

I try not to bore my readers.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

I have been a voracious reader for years.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

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

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

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but mostly a lot of nothing. I'm quite content doing very little.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

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

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.