Reader Quotes - Page 3

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Books belong to their readers.