Reader Quotes - Page 5

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

A leader is a reader.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.