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Reader Quotes by Dean Koontz
- 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…
- 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…
- Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
- Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In…
More Reader Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles