Reader Quotes

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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. — Horace Walpole
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the… — S E Hinton
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book… — Caroline B. Cooney
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up — Caroline B. Cooney
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the… — Steve Stockman
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for… — Terence Rattigan
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What… — Suze Orman
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.… — Billy Collins
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can… — Billy Collins
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. — Helen Dunmore
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over… — M. R. James
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Dale Purves
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, donâ€™t we secretly clasp each otherâ€™s hands? — Bruno Schulz
I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested… — Mira Sorvino
Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a… — Brian Solis
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited… — Amy Bloom
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess… — Wislawa Szymborska
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones… — Emily Giffin

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