Reader Quotes - Page 4

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

Those who write clearly have readers.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.