Reader Quotes
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
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I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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Good readers make much out of little.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
