Books Quote by Alexandra Stoddard

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

— Lynsey Addario

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

— Jane Cleland

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and…

— John M. Ford

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

— Avi

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

— Ayad Akhtar

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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

— John C. Maxwell

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky