Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose… — Sara Sheridan
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind… — Alan Moore
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world… — Erica Jong
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy… — Michael Chabon
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. — Lloyd Alexander
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if… — Elwyn Brooks White
Itâ€™s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your readerâ€™s imagination when youâ€™re telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Every reader should ask himself periodically â€œToward what end, toward what end?â€â€”but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of… — Alan Perlis
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish.… — Andrew Greeley
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than… — Pierre Bayle
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
The paper is patient, but the reader is not. — Joseph Joubert
Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal. — Jennie Shortridge
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time theyâ€™re four years old, theyâ€™re… — Mem Fox
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language… — T. E. D. Klein
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a… — Anthony Doerr
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' â€” which I think is true. I just started writing and… — Stewart O'Nan
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. Thatâ€™s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being… — Po Bronson

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