Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your… — Katherine Paterson
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and… — Katherine Paterson
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell… — Scott O'Dell
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass
Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five… — William Zinsser
Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage,… — Deborah Eisenberg
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. — Terri Windling
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the… — Stan Lee
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for… — Dave Gibbons
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It… — Del Howison
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page… — Jane Smiley
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. — Carol Anshaw
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't… — Steve Leveen
A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parraâ€™s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the… — Walker Evans
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that… — Anna Quindlen
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words… — Helen Dunmore
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such… — Edward Hirsch

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