R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.”
“Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle. (...) There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”
“Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.”
“Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.”
“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”
“Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.”
“Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.”
“Readers are never bored or lonely.”
“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
“Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.”
“Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.”
“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
“Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?”
“Readers become Leaders.”
“Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.”
“Readers can only read so many books in a month. And unless you give them a really good reason to read your book, they'll prefer to read some other, more famous book. You're competing for the reader's attention. And if you don't even know that, you've already lost.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.”
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.”
Source: Writing Fiction for Dummies
“Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.”
“Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.”
Source: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel
“Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.”
“Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.”
Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“Readers familiar with role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, will enjoy reading about grisly battles and learning the complex, unfolding rules of the Lands of Amun.”
“Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.”
“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.”
“Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.”
“Readers have been so conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard to stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The fact is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have allowed ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to interpret what is unsaid.”
Source: A Carrot is a Carrot
“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”
Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can."
[Blog entry, January 9, 2012]”
“Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.”
“Readers know what the copy is going to say.”
Source: Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork
“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”
“Readers make writers and writers make readers”
Source: Poetic Puberty: Developmental Stages of a Poet
“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.”
Source: Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge. Volume 1
“Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also”
Source: Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632
“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”
“Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.”
“Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.”
“Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.”
“Readers of fantasy fiction actually imagine having the abilities of the villains more often then the protagonist. Bravo writers!”
“Readers of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.
It is.
But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare.”
Source: Grasshopper Jungle
“Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.”
“Readers of the book, paradoxically, will have a different kind of surprise in store for them: What many "Vertigo" aficionados will find perplexing are the systematic, businesslike, matter of fact circumstances under which this odd, obsessional, very un-matter-of-fact film was created.”
Source: Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic
“Readers of these memoirs, know that I have never been very religious. I am not ashamed of this fact. I have endeavoured to be a good woman nonetheless, and to do good for those around me.”
Source: The Voyage of the Basilisk
“Readers on the storm”
“Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.”