Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it… — Ken Follett
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to… — Jeffery Deaver
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my… — Jeffery Deaver
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing… — Jeffery Deaver
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my… — Lee Child
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop,… — David Ogilvy
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are… — David Ogilvy
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy?… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. — Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a… — Charlaine Harris
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of… — James Schuyler
There are so many things hinted at that will be fun to reveal in depth. For years, fans have made it abundantly and enthusiastically clear… — James Dashner
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward,… — Jonathan Franzen
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them. — Nora Roberts
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. — John Lescroart
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the… — John Hagee
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile… — Vissarion Belinsky
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love… — Janet Evanovich
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad… — Dallin H. Oaks
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)… — John McGahern

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