Reader Quotes

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I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books. — Jan Karon
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I… — Jan Karon
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth. — Jan Karon
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a… — Jan Karon
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty. — Richard Ford
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get… — Tim Cahill
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then… — Nicholson Baker
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of… — Ian Mcewan
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
It's what the reader thinks that counts. — Tibor Fischer
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not… — Diane Wakoski
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the… — Leslie Fiedler
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom
I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones. — Mitch Albom
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. — David Foster Wallace
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. — James Buchan
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every… — Janet Fitch
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. — LeVar Burton
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author;… — Ernesto Sabato

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