Reader Quotes

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

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 ...)

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.

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

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.

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

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.