Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it… — Unknown Author
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. — Ben Bova
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination". — Raymond Keene
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… — Samuel Johnson
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense. — John C. Maxwell
If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful.… — Theodora Goss
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers. — Martin Amis
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. — Jonathan Coe
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of… — Lisi Harrison
Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and… — Carl E. Olson
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks… — Jeffrey Zaslow
Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of… — David Liss
Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what… — Maggie Shayne
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories,… — Geoff Ryman
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest… — Steven Heighton
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers… — John Jackson Miller
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but… — Niall Williams
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black… — Unknown Author

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