Quotes of: Readers Keyword

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Ron Rash

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"....

Robert Reed

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Raoul Vaneigem

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

Reese Witherspoon

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

Stuart Aken

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

A. S. Byatt

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Natalie Goldberg

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

Neil Cross

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

Francis Parkman

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing.

Hugh Howey

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

Sadie Jones

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Sophie Thompson