Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. — John Barton
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. — Tobias Wolff
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and… — Nassau William Senior
The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were… — Francis Parkman
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject… — Samuel E. Morison
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all… — Jim Lehrer
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is… — Maria Monk
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon
You give the reader a sense of a full meal. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.… — Joan Didion
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of… — Arthur Smith
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that… — Ian Mcewan
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. — Anthony Horowitz
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and… — Debbie Macomber
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and… — Mary Gordon
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh… — Michael Koryta
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are… — Graham Swift
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I… — Graham Swift

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