Reader Quotes

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

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

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

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

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

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Not every book is for every reader.

A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.