Reader Quotes - Page 6

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

Reader, I married him.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.