Quotes of: Readers Keyword

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

George Plimpton

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

Heather Hart

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

Hannah Kent

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Judith McNaught

I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

Colson Whitehead

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

Debasish Mridha

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Justin Cronin

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

John Doerr

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Jennifer Egan

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

Jonathan Evison

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

John M. Ford

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Joanne Harris

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Siri Hustvedt

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us or to reject us.

Stefano Tonchi

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

David Low

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Ken Follett

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft