Reader Quotes - Page 10

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

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

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

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

I was a precocious reader.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Not every book is for every reader.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.