Reader Quotes

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.

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.

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.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

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.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

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.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

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

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.