Reader Quotes · Page 11

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

— Jonathan Franzen

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

— Epictetus

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

— Joan Didion

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

— Stephen Hendry

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

— DanTDM

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

— Iris Johansen

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

— Tahir Shah

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

— Sara Maitland

Trump is a room-reader. He'll slow down a line, rephrase a point, work in a pause, and ride the energy of his…

— Katy Tur

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer…

— Walter Jon Williams

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

— Robert Paul Weston

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

— Anne Roiphe

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

— Kate DiCamillo

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and…

— Mark Twain

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story…

— Matthew Healy

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane…

— Billy Collins

Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create…

— Christopher Golden

I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been…

— Karen Kingsbury

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the…

— Helen Dunmore

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context,…

— Rob Bell

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment…

— Taylor Mali

Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared…

— Kate DiCamillo

The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never…

— Annie Fellows Johnston

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

— Annie Dillard

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

— Kate Winslet

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

— Rita Mae Brown

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

I treat every reader as if they were a close friend.

— Molly Yeh

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson