Reader Quotes · Page 48

In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

— Anne McCaffrey

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

— Tyler Cowen

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments…

— Joel Stein

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time…

— Suzanne Brockmann

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what…

— Marilyn Hacker

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

— Siri Hustvedt

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes…

— Adrian Tomine

Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable…

— Jonathan Littell

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think…

— Augusten Burroughs

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of…

— Stephen King

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed,…

— Anonymous

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English…

— Alan Bradley

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's…

— George Saunders

To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on…

— George Polya

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,…

— Katherine Paterson

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected…

— Lorin Stein

A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of…

— Susan Orlean

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested…

— Stan Lee

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important

— Roald Dahl

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

— Alice B. Toklas

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

— Emma Donoghue

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

— Agnes Repplier

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his…

— Anonymous

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

— Jan Neruda

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

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

— Richard Armitage

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld