Quotes of: Readers Keyword

And she is the reader who browses the shelf and looks for new worlds but finds herself.

BookSpeak!: Poems about Books

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Kurt Busiek

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

Melissa Marr

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

Jo Nesbo

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

All Those Vanished Engines

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

After the Gazebo

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

Aspects of the Novel

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Man The Dwelling Place Of God

I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.

Meme Myself and Jesus

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

A Nietzsche Reader

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

A Nietzsche Reader

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The Library at Night

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.

Suddenly Royal

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

A fighter is someone who fights- with everything and anything she has at her disposal.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader