Readers Quotes · Page 19

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but…

— Naomi Benaron

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain…

— Jasper Fforde

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

— Alberto Manguel

“Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many…

— Jules Verne

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

— Toni Morrison

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;…

— John Hodgman

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company…

— Niall Williams

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations…

— Jo Beverley

I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers…

— Graeme Base

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going…

— Robert Kirkman

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect…

— Felice Picano

“I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as…

— Julian Barnes

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need…

— Scott Turow

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to…

— Karin Slaughter

“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.”

— Donalyn Miller

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably…

— Louis Menand

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

— Elliot Perlman

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

— Mark Waid

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

We must have first, to care for our readers by doing things right from the beginning.

— Kira Permunian

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

— Sara Zarr

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

— Hugh Howey

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you…

— Brian Zahnd

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

— Erin Morgenstern

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

— Suzanne Brockmann

“Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the…

— Alan Rusbridger

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I…

— Dave Portnoy

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

— John C. Maxwell

“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

— Marcus Aurelius

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte