Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Mohsin Hamid

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Rick Riordan

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Robert Scheer

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Robert Vaughan

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Stephen E. Ambrose

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

A. Scott Berg

As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls.

Scott Borgman

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Suzanne Collins

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Mira Sorvino

Beauty of Massage are not in letters, but it is in the mind of the reader. Letters are only creating sound, but it is the human who converted into a proper meaning, emotions and feelings

Mohammad Rishad sakhi

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

Mark Twain

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

Neil Gaiman

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Nikki Giovanni

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Nikki Giovanni

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

Nicole Krauss

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Nicole Krauss

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

John Scott

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

Lorrie Moore

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Mike McCue