One Reader Quotes
- Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Bruce Holland Rogers
- Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to… — Lewis Buzbee
- I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes… — Hugh Howey
- The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. — Sara Zarr
- A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred… — Arthur Koestler
- There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the… — Abraham Verghese
- I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash… — Karen Marie Moning
- A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb