Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed… — Donald Murray
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and… — Andy Wilkinson
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. — J.A. Konrath
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are… — Scott McClanahan
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and… — Deanna Raybourn
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important… — Neil Gaiman
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the… — Unknown Author
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too — John Lithgow
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my readers for their… — Unknown Author
Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading… — Unknown Author
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy… — Unknown Author
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls… — Wayne Thomas Batson
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement… — Unknown Author
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Unknown Author
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. — Steven Spielberg
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away… — Studs Terkel
I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards. — Lloyd Alexander
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But… — Julian Barnes

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