Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I really try to focus on my books and readers. — Emily Giffin
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of… — Donald E. Westlake
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their… — Leland Ryken
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed… — Leland Ryken
We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make… — Otis Chandler
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain… — Blake Bailey
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into… — Jo Nesbo
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I… — Jo Nesbo
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no… — Jeff Belanger
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case,… — Mordecai Richler
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the… — Mark Millar
There is in Albert Camusâ€™ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted… — Aberjhani
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes… — Rick Riordan
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like… — Mitch Albom
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. — Susan Wiggs
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. — Patricia Duncker

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