Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Avi Arad

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

John Barton

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Mark Leyner

In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as impo...

Essentials of Young Adult Literature

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever...

Somewhere Towards the End

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's hard...

James Rollins

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk. Too often, at regular book signings, I meet readers who have traveled six or eight hours to see me, and I'm unable to spend more tha...

Suzanne Brockmann

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

Flaubert's Parrot

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Seth Godin

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T.S. Eliot

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Maureen Johnson

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Garry Trudeau

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

P. J. O'Rourke

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Ken Follett

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

David Foster Wallace

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Vikram Seth

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To k...

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the most admirable character in a novel, and she hoped for more nuanced engagement from her own readers. ...

My Life in Middlemarch