Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means… — John Hodgman
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work,… — Christopher Hitchens
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and… — Simon Hoggart
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. — Khaled Hosseini
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. — James Joyce
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and… — John Keats
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I… — Stephen King
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of… — Dean Koontz
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically… — Dean Koontz
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred… — Arthur Koestler
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. — Dean Koontz
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad… — Mike Krzyzewski
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on… — Milan Kundera
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper… — Anne Lamott
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing… — Jen Lancaster
I try to leave out the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard

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