Reader Quotes

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My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be… — Elmore Leonard
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. — George R. R. Martin
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should… — George R. R. Martin
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the… — Mary McCarthy
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes… — Henry Miller
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication… — Henry Miller
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. — Denise Mina
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and… — Mary Wortley Montagu
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps… — Alan Moore
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of… — Alan Moore
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but… — Michael Morpurgo
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that… — Alice Munro
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle.… — Haruki Murakami
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to… — Haruki Murakami
I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I… — Walter Dean Myers
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed… — Vladimir Nabokov
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. — Howard Nemerov

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