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Reader Quotes by Yann Martel
- Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their…
- Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a…
- If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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 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
- Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the… — R. K. Milholland