Books Quote by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Download Open image “If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.” — Teresa Nielsen Hayden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Different Reader
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read. — Jack Bickham Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image