Reader Quotes

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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love… — Janet Evanovich
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad… — Dallin H. Oaks
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… — Marcel Proust
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)… — John McGahern
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and… — Jeanette Winterson
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.Â All our difficulty comes with the others.Â When did you meet a workman who… — C.S. Lewis
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs… — John Ciardi
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity… — E. M. Forster
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and… — E. M. Forster
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Frederick Corder
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe

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