Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.
I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.
I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.
I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.
Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.