Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

David McCullough

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Vladimir Nabokov

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

James Randolph Adams

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

Charlaine Harris

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Chris Hughes

I am a reader, not because I don't have a life, but because I choose to have many.

I'm not sure

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Julian Barnes

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Edward M. Lerner

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Elmore Leonard

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

A.S. Byatt

I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please . . . no comments on my author face!

C.C. Alma

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Helen Dunmore

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

Dermot Healy