Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I don't want to force my politics on my readers. — John Grisham
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money… — Robert Silverberg
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.… — Walter Dean Myers
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've… — Michael Morpurgo
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
I don't inflict horrors on readers. — Alan Furst
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware… — Maggie Stiefvater
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead… — Alan Dean Foster
I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had… — Walt Simonson
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — Johannes Kepler
We need a leader, not a reader. — Herman Cain
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the… — Doris Grumbach
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand… — Bell Hooks
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to… — Colin Greenland

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