“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“This book was made much better with the help of our beta readers: Alia Renee Capodici,” — India Drummond Copy Share Image
I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“Readers may be divided into three classes - the superficial, the ignorant, and the learned, and I have with much felicity fitted… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“Each Reading is another form of Time Travel or Experiencing the Multiverse.” — Pradip Bendkule Copy Share Image
I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
