Reader Quotes

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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?' — Gore Vidal
Designers provide ways intoâ€”and out ofâ€”the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down,… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing. — Sergei Dovlatov
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to… — William Makepeace Thackeray
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable.… — Tad Williams
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang
I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him… — Stan Lee
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question, — Milan Kundera
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers. — Jan Neruda
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic… — Lester Bangs
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen,… — Katherine Boo
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. — Stephan Jenkins
With James Reeseâ€™s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only… — Matthew Pearl
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was… — M. John Harrison

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