Quotes of: Readers Keyword

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

Adam Carolla

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Anita Diament

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Alex Flinn

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Alexander McCall Smith

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.

Sara Sheridan

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

Tombstone epitaph in Perth Scotland

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Terri Windling

A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.

Life

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?

Life

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Y.S. Lee

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

Zosia Mamet

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Kevin J. Anderson

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to d...

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

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The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 2

When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary ta...

The Night Bookmobile

Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a...

The Poetics of Space

Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost invariably he will be offered an assisted passage. Footnotes, Forewords, Afterwords serve notice that a given text...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form