Reader Quotes - Page 15

Reader, I literally married him.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

When I read, I'm purely a reader

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.