Reader Quotes - Page 7

The more I suffer, the more I love.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.