Reader Quotes - Page 14

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.