Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a… — Thomas Sowell
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought… — Kristen Stewart
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah,… — J. Michael Straczynski
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think… — Amy Tan
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. — Twyla Tharp
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers… — Malcolm Turnbull
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Mark Twain
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the… — Abraham Verghese
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. — Voltaire
I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail. — Ayelet Waldman
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth… — Ayelet Waldman
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you… — Ayelet Waldman
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility… — David Foster Wallace
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print,… — David Foster Wallace
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I… — David Walliams
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write… — David Walliams

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