Reader Quotes · Page 36

“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

— Jaron Lanier

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

— Anonymous

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

— J. Milton Hayes

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

— Don Roff

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

— Horace

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader…

— Lee Pace

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's…

— Stephen Hawking

Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.

— Orville Prescott

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you…

— Jeannette Walls

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it…

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television…

— John Green

If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly…

— Lorrie Moore

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you…

— Jonathan Gold

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine…

— John Arbuthnot

Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the…

— Clara Jeffery

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does…

— Edward Rutherfurd

If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,…

— Kathleen Rooney

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire…

— George Saunders

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.…

— Billy Collins

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

— Akhil Sharma

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

— Anthony Horowitz

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set…

— Steven Wright

“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.”

— Louis L'Amour

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play…

— Emanuel Lasker

“An author should leave fingerprints not on the page but on the reader.”

— Elizabeth M. Lawrence

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

— John Cheever

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

— Alec Sulkin

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

— Regina Doman

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are…

— Robert Cormier

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has…

— Seamus Heaney

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe