Reader Quotes

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

Reader, I married him.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.