Reader Quotes

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

The sun shines. Readers read.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.