Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. — Ernest Dimnet
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear… — David McCullough
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In… — John Lahr
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. — Julian Barnes
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were. — Julian Barnes
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the… — John Lahr
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a… — Patricia Briggs
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're… — William Least Heat-Moon
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. — Paul Theroux
Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it… — Jonathan Raban
Good readers make much out of little. — Irving Howe
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. — Jen Lancaster
It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny… — Jenny Lawson

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