Reader Quotes

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.

I love connecting with readers!

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.