Books Quote by Mario Benedetti

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

— Sara Zarr

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

— Miranda Hart

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer…

— John Updike

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

— Sarah Vowell

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however…

— St. Teresa Of Avila

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

— Paul Gilbert