Reader Quotes
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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
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Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
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A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
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Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
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I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.
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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
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An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
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The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.
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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
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The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
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You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
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Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
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I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
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An active and creative reader is a re-reader.
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I hope to offend every reader.
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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
