Reader Quotes

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

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

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.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

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

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

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

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the 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.

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

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

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.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

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.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

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

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

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.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.