Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book… — Laurie Helgoe
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere… — Ronald Frame
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or… — Amish Tripathi
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have… — Ann Voskamp
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring… — Simon Schama
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. — Mario Benedetti
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the… — Hannah Kent
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are… — Julie Klausner
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable. — Donald Ray Pollock
It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a… — James Fenimore Cooper
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think.… — Craig Brown
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have… — Ruth Ozeki
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at… — Julia Quinn
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I… — Lisa Kleypas
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of… — John James Audubon
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue… — John Updike
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and… — Marie Lu
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White

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