Reader Quotes - Page 8

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.