Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

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