Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on… — Harlan Coben
My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do… — Paulo Coelho
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for… — Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard… — Maya Angelou
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about… — Piers Anthony
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young… — Piers Anthony
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy… — Piers Anthony
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother… — Stephen King
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it… — Stanley Morison
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and… — James Emanuel
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski
You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers. — Rupert Murdoch
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. — Charles Clark
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Stan Barstow
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work… — Steve Almond
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. — Michael Korda
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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