Reader Quotes
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It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
Norman Rush -
So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying as much as I can to delete all of that research in a later draft so that all the reader cares about is the characters.
Molly Antopol
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Hilary Mantel -
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
Michael Morpurgo -
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
Scott Westerfeld -
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
Paul Auster -
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
Esther Freud -
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
Rick Atkinson
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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 -
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
Ewan McGregor -
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
Erik Naggum -
We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
Scott Westerfeld -
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
Elaine Equi
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Jonathan Dee -
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.
Evelyn Underhill -
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
Michael Chabon -
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
Nathan Lowell -
Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Wallace Stegner
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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
Carolyn Wheat -
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
Sarah Zettel -
The judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.
Sarah Fielding -
I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.
Danielle Dutton