Readers Quotes · Page 17

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain…

— Jasper Fforde

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

— Toni Morrison

“Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many…

— Jules Verne

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

— Alberto Manguel

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but…

— Naomi Benaron

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

— Erin Morgenstern

“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you…

— Brian Zahnd

What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq.…

— John Gimlette

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I…

— Anonymous

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were…

— Adam Langer

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to…

— James Patterson

When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands,…

— Colleen Hoover

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in…

— Christie Golden

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,…

— David Mitchell

“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last…

— Patricia Duncker

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in…

— Robert Greene

If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a…

— Jennifer Egan

“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support…

— Erica R. Meiners

No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the…

— David Sedaris

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

— Suzanne Brockmann

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

— Hugh Howey

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

— Mark Waid

We must have first, to care for our readers by doing things right from the beginning.

— Kira Permunian

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

— Sara Zarr

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

— Edward M. Lerner

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

— Carl Barks

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

— Alexandra Stoddard

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

— Richard Stallman

My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd…

— Nicola Griffith

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

— Jodi Picoult

“For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion”

— Brian Ruckley

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to…

— Andy Wilkinson

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

— Avi Arad

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose