Reader Quotes

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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.… — Margaret Atwood
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and… — Andy Wilkinson
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the… — Peter Selgin
When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want… — Etgar Keret
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on… — George Saunders
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. — Mark Twain
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. — J.A. Konrath
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Kathryn Stripling Byer
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters,… — Kadir Nelson
Iâ€™m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life. — Lorin Stein
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are… — Scott McClanahan
These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world.… — Martine Leavitt
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and… — Deanna Raybourn
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader. — Erik Spiekermann
Itâ€™s a rare reader who doesnâ€™t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started… — Lee Pace
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them — Keira Knightley

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