Reader Quotes · Page 55

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

“However, I'm here to tell you dear reader that there is always more than meets the eye.”

— Isabella Kruger

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

— David Bezmozgis

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

— Kate DiCamillo

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being…

— Diane Duane

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to…

— William Safire

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within…

— Anna Quindlen

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't…

— Rachel Kushner

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

— Lyn Hejinian

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect…

— Alan Furst

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people…

— Simon Schama

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of…

— J. R. Moehringer

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes…

— Michael Chabon

Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient…

— Tsultrim Allione

GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a…

— Roger E. Olson

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…

— Michael Dirda

I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live…

— Daniel H. Pink

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average…

— John Burdett

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…

— Robert K. Merton

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of…

— Jasper Fforde

General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at…

— Samuel Johnson

Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is…

— Jennie Shortridge

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of…

— Matt de la Pena

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and…

— Helen Dunmore

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

— Eoin Colfer

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

— Bill Gates

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile…

— Don DeLillo

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own…

— Michael Hersch

“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”

— Jenny Hubbard

“Everyone is a reader... Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.”

— Anonymous

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes…

— Arnold Schoenberg

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex…

— Sara Nelson

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I…

— Paul Auster

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

— Anonymous