Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are — Garry Trudeau
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the… — Oliver Goldsmith
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… — Yann Martel
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but… — Ralph Ellison
I don't want to force my politics on my readers. — John Grisham
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money… — Robert Silverberg
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
I don't inflict horrors on readers. — Alan Furst
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware… — Maggie Stiefvater
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead… — Alan Dean Foster
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the… — Unknown Author
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in… — Unknown Author
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul,… — Adam Kirsch
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to… — Rachel Kushner
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a… — Ayn Rand
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do. — Ruth Rendell
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers… — Anne Rice

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