Reader Quotes · Page 50

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

— Tracy Chevalier

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

— Erica Jong

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

— Nora Roberts

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up…

— Jim Lehrer

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

— Karl Marx

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

— Ruth Rendell

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read…

— Jim Trelease

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of…

— Umberto Eco

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers…

— Elmore Leonard

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting…

— Vera Brittain

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left…

— Edward Hirsch

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them…

— Julie Klassen

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,…

— Steve Almond

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer…

— Richard Bach

Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,…

— Harvey Mansfield

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male…

— Megan Abbott

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying…

— Tad Williams

Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those…

— Will Self

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until…

— Dashiell Hammett

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.”

— Sofija

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for…

— Dorothy Parker

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

— Seth Godin

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly…

— Justine Larbalestier

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

— A. S. Byatt

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong…

— Rick Riordan

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,…

— Garrison Keillor

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

— John M. Ford

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You…

— Ridley Scott

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

— Ken Follett

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to…

— William Zinsser