Reader Quotes - Page 12

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

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

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

I have been a voracious reader for years.

I try not to bore my readers.

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

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

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

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.