Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.
I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!