Reader Quotes
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I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.
Rajeev Suri
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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Sue Grafton
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
C. S. Lewis
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For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.
Michael Morpurgo
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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
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I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
Ted Dekker
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
Bill Peet
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Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.
Will Eisner
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Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya Angelou
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
Willa Cather
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Arthur Brisbane
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Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.
Edith Hall
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
Robert Frost
