Reader Quotes · Page 52

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an…

— Richard Ford

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers…

— Jodi Picoult

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced…

— Nicholas Lemann

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the…

— Kingsley Amis

[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,…

— Chris Ware

I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through…

— Alan Lightman

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

— David Carson

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

— John Steinbeck

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;…

— Donald E. Graham

I'm a very slow reader.

— Anonymous

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…

— Steven Saylor

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading,…

— Sefi Atta

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed…

— David Nicholls

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

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet…

— Marty Nemko

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like…

— Carl Hart

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

— John Henrik Clarke

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

— Alberto Manguel

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane…

— Billy Collins

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word…

— Bertrand Russell