Quotes of: Readers Keyword

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

Eleanor Catton

As a passionate writer, reader and fiction lover, I enjoy sharing recommendations and promoting the work of fellow authors.

Carla H. Krueger

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

Colm Toibin

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Harvey Pekar

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Italo Calvino

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Jonathan Ames

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

John Ciardi

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

David Ogilvy

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

E.M. Forster

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

Beth Gutcheon

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Barbara Park

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

Chetan Bhagat

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Gabrielle Zevin

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Jon Scieszka

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Jack Vance

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Chuck Wendig

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

James Ellroy

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Joshua Foer

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Julian Fellowes