Readers Quotes
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The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.
Soren Kierkegaard -
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
Oscar Wilde
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People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
Bill Gates -
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath -
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
R. L. Stine -
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Tariq Ali -
We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
Jeremy Miller -
Everything I publish is for my readers.
Felix Dennis
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
Ted Dekker -
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
E. L. Konigsburg -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
Tavi Gevinson -
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
Betsy Lerner
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
Wendy Higgins -
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
Alice B. Toklas -
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history’s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.
Matthew Pearl -
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.
James Boswell -
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
Alexander Brome -
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make.
Claude C. Hopkins
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Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.
Lionel Shriver -
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action.
Claude C. Hopkins -
The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
Arthur Christiansen -
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Scott Westerfeld