Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.

Sandy Nathan

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

Sara Sheridan

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Scott Westerfeld

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Sara Zarr

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Kathryn Lasky

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

Kaela Marooney

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Ken Scott

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Laurie Halse Anderson

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

Leo Burnett

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

Lorin Stein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Mitch Albom

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Michael Chabon

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

Mary Grandpre

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

Marian Keyes

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy