Reader Quotes

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not… — Denise Levertov
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time… — Paulo Coelho
Your protagonist is your readerâ€™s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world youâ€™re… — Janet Fitch
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all… — Susan Sarandon
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first… — Walter Mosley
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only… — C.S. Lewis
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does… — John Green
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important — Roald Dahl
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to… — Helen Garner
Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader. — Harry S. Truman
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience… — Elie Wiesel
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life… — Annie Proulx
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. — Zadie Smith
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to… — Laurence Housman
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed… — Carolyn Heilbrun
I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next;… — David Malouf

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