Reader Quotes · Page 28

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

— Henning Mankell

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

— Bell Hooks

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

— Wallace Stegner

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to…

— Ian Frazier

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it…

— Ayn Rand

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,…

— Lee Child

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me…

— Asa Larsson

“Ahhh, my winter cozy woosah place to re-craft brain-cell recharge, and recreate; for the author & reader community...that place is a bookstore,…

— Tracey Bond

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very…

— Thom Gunn

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words…

— Elena Ferrante

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved…

— Aravind Adiga

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't…

— Nick Hornby

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,…

— William Brinkley

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one…

— Anonymous

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for…

— Tracy K. Smith

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism.…

— Dorothy Parker

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world…

— Margaret Atwood

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader…

— Conrad Aiken

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first…

— Alan Moore

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to…

— Neville Cardus

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

— Suzanne Collins

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

— John Ashbery

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

— Louis Dudek

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

— Alonso Duralde

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

— Kate Winslet

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or…

— Francine Rivers

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele”

— Suzanne Steele

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi