Reader Quotes - Page 16

I'm a really eclectic reader.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

Every text assumes a reader.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

I am not a good cue card reader.

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.