Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.
I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.