Reader Quotes

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

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

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.