Reader Quotes
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If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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And so, reader, it was ultimately settled, and in the course of two weeks more we three were on our way to the land of the slave, the black savage, and the gorilla.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
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You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
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I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
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I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
