Reader Quotes · Page 44

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture…

— Paul Auster

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

— Janet Evanovich

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

— Frederick Forsyth

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its…

— Stephen King

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

— Anonymous

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has…

— J. Norman Collie

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between…

— Sarah Ruhl

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations…

— Jo Beverley

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...]…

— Laura Miller

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…

— Jennifer Armstrong

My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of…

— Teju Cole

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check…

— Ryan Reynolds

I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of…

— Simon Baker

I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay…

— Dave Abrams

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving…

— Nick Earls

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.…

— Polybius

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a…

— Emanuel Lasker

I want each character to be as unique as possible. I want them to reflect something of who they are in the…

— Jesmyn Ward

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're…

— Jonathan Franzen

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

— George Meyer

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

— Wallace Stegner

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

— Sergei Dovlatov

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

— Libba Bray

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts…

— Mortimer Adler

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

— Jane Austen

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

— Alan Lightman

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to…

— Laurie Foos