Quotes About Trust

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

I will do everything in my power to keep my readers.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.