Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden
I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting. — Justine Larbalestier
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. — Andrew Pyper
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the… — Amy Bloom
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read… — S E Hinton
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it… — Garry Disher
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. — Garry Disher
I was as eager a writer as I was a reader. — Sherwood Smith
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my… — Nancy Werlin
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the… — Paul Di Filippo
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. — Greg van Eekhout
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my… — John Scalzi
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their… — Richard Flanagan
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats
Will the reader turn the page? — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it.… — Karl A. Menninger
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Thomas Wolfe

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