Readers Quotes

• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Readers

• Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Grief
  • Readers
  • Adventures

• I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Books
  • Readers

• A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Trouble
  • Readers
  • Aware

• I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Respect
  • Fight
  • Horror

• Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Earth
  • Notice
  • Novelists

• I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

  

  Michael Finkel
  • Thing
  • Worst
  • Committed

• Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.

  

  Robert Weinberg
  • Parents
  • Folks
  • Magazines

• It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

  

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
  • Writing
  • Boundaries
  • Readers

• Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Book
  • Expect
  • Readers

• I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Trying
  • Conversation
  • Readers

• Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • Book
  • Readers
  • Literary

• Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Work
  • Stories
  • Memory

• I tend toward an expansive sentence that has a cold surface and, visible underneath it, a magma of unbearable heat. I want readers to know from the first lines what they will have to deal with.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Deal
  • Readers

• In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Style
  • Stories
  • Possibility

• Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

  

  Ed McBain
  • Writing
  • Readers

• I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Proud
  • Enjoy
  • Miracle

• Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.

  

  Faris Badwan
  • Music
  • Important
  • Sense

• I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

  

  Suzanne Brockmann
  • Intelligent
  • Diversity
  • Readers

• Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pleasure
  • Novels
  • Narratives

• Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

  

  Ben Bova
  • Believe
  • Story
  • Readers

• I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagine
  • Novel
  • London

• Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Generation
  • Writers
  • Readers

• A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Writer
  • Consciousness
  • Readers

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