Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. — Jeffery Deaver
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of… — Junot Diaz
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers… — Junot Diaz
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is… — Junot Diaz
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're… — Roger Ebert
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before… — Roger Ebert
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These… — Umberto Eco
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative:… — Dave Eggers
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. — Julian Fellowes
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find… — Tim Ferriss
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your… — Carl Hiaasen
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means… — John Hodgman
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and… — Simon Hoggart
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley
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… — Dean Koontz
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… — Dean Koontz
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred… — Arthur Koestler
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper… — Anne Lamott
I try to leave out the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard
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
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

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