Best Reader Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.”

“It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.”

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Author:Jenny Lawson

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

Trying Reader Delight Theatrical

Author:Mark Leyner

“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Form Reader Patterns Opposition Interaction

Author:Margaret Mahy

“When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.”

Heart Reader Criticism Feedback Editorials

Author:Scott McCloud

“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.”

Thinking Feels Stories Body Reading Next My Own Steps Reader Creating Defined Next Steps

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.”

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Author:Laurie Notaro

“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.”

Bigs Culture Reading Novel Crime Youth Industry Reader Becoming Late Innocent Transition Fascinated Keith Reversal Youth Culture

Author:Jo Nesbo

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

Thinking Want Giving Feels Writing Book Millions Reader Thousand Pressure Tempted Good Book Replicate

Author:Jo Nesbo

“But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.”

Wanted Moving Reader Computer Relevant Topics Storage

Author:Ted Nelson

“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.”

People Writing Important Choices Given Nations Opinion Position Reader Perception Pages Publishers Columns Editorials Implicit

Author:Daniel Okrent

“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”

Ends Belief Break Reader Elements The End Of The Day Attachment Realism Magical Realism Make Or Break

Author:Tea Obreht

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

Book Ends Might Order Interest Gone Return Reader Equal Kitchen Organized Hops Logical Bus Replaced Bathroom Sister Tourists

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”

World Writing Book Facts Novel Doubt Ready Reader Assuming Prepared Nonfiction Be Prepared Legion

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.”

Thinking Writing Reader Metaphor Editors

Author:Steven Pressfield

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.”

People Want Writing Certain Realizing Type Reader Please

Author:Dennis Lehane

“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.”

Thinking World Deals Knowing Reader Excuse Not Knowing No Excuses American Poetry

Author:James Laughlin

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Differences Poet Personality Reader Sitting

Author:James Laughlin

“At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.”

Should Ends Reader Illusion Inevitable

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.”

People Thinking Should Made Book Ends Choices Reader Wings Spells Laurels Right Choices

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.”

Writing Film Certain Literature My Own Cases Reader Difficulty Limitation Viewers Concentrating

Author:Manuel Puig

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

Thinking Writing Literature Reader Always Thinking

Author:Manuel Puig

“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.”

Ifs Stills Important Stories Enjoy Awareness Reader Conscious Reactions

Author:Thomas Perry

“I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?”

Thinking Want Past Changed Reader Now And Then Scotland

Author:Ian Rankin

“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Turns Literature Understanding Information Reader Benefits Tasks Method Appreciation Helpful

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.”

Book Problem Names Fantasy Reader Harder Suspense Genre Typical No Problem Signing Plugs Booksellers

Author:James Rollins

“I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.”

Way Littles Kids Reader Curious Eccentric Talkers Outgoing

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Ends Would Be Reading Reader Be Good Enjoyable Dense Masochistic

Author:Josh Radnor

“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

“One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.”

World Character Goal Reader

Author:Ron Rash

“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.”

Ability Fiction Novel Reader Mediums Narrative I've Learned Length Lacking

Author:Ron Rash

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.”

Book Reading Reader Conversation Love Of Reading

Author:Garth Stein

“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.”

Thinking Looks Political Views Reader Range Guidance Political View

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.”

Writing Persons I Can Whole Dies Reader Notion Average Sat Detectives Notebook Homicide

Author:David Simon

“I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.”

World Giving Writing Believe Enough Lost Sound Voice Willing Reader Ideals Keep Going New World

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.”

Ifs Writing Book Character Moving Purpose Behinds Reader Comfortable Pages Ultimate Smell Block Novelists Plot Outlines Phony Plausible Synopsis

Author:Clive Cussler

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.”

Writing Reader Spectators Adversaries

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.”

Ifs Party Novel Missing Reader Conversation Starters After Party

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

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