Reader Quotes - Page 2

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.