Reader Quotes

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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with.… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a… — Chris Hughes
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing? — Ed McBain
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds… — Marilyn Hacker
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to… — Marilyn Hacker
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time,… — Tony Hillerman
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something… — Janis Ian
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a… — Leslie Jamison
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see. — Maureen Johnson
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't… — Elizabeth Kostova
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance… — Hari Kunzru
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been… — Masashi Kishimoto

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