Quotes of: Readers Keyword

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Jean M. Auel

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Linda Sue Park

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

Arti Honrao

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Amity Shlaes

Your Writing Teacher ‏@WritingChief If u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages. Become their leader. (anonymous on Twitter)

Writing Chief

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.

Envy

Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through The Great Books

If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we’re not in form to learn lessons. We’re here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.

Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Dan Simmons

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challen...

George Steiner

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

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

It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.

I Kill the Mockingbird

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

Readers for Life: The Ultimate Reading Fitness Guide, K-8

If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them:

Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded

Sarah: Malcolm's Prize