Books Quote by Jack Vance

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

— Michael Ondaatje

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis