Quotes of: Readers Keyword

My characters don't always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

Carla H. Krueger

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

David Foster Wallace

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

Claire Amber

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

Janae Mitchell

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Daniel Clowes

While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.

Darynda Jones

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Jeffrey Eugenides

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Victor J. Banis

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for ...

Dublinesque

By appealing to his imagination, a pornographic novel brings the reader’s body into play; libertine fiction appeals only to his mind. The goal of the former is erotic pleasure, or rather the desire to experience erotic pleasure, which the pornograp...

Jean-Marie Goulemot

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these poi...

Robert M. Fowler

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

Sara Zarr

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Michael Bassey Johnson

For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

Jonathan Evison

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

S. E. Hinton

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Nathalie Sarraute