Quotes of: Readers Keyword

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Ian Frazier

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Beverly Cleary

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

Quentin Blake

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

David James Duncan

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Mudd

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

Naguib Mahfouz

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Cory Doctorow

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

Ayelet Waldman

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Irving Penn

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

John Barton

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

John Barton

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Julian Barnes

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Ernest Dimnet

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

Elizabeth Hernandez

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Cassandra Clare

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

J.D. Salinger

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Dan Brown