Amused Quote by Larry Niven

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates…

— John Green

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule…

— John Creasey

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of…

— Carlos Fuentes

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not…

— Ayn Rand

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of…

— Walter Benjamin