Quotes About Readership

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

I think when you look at the diversity of the readership, all the different people who love comics, I want comics to reflect the real world, and I think Marvel does a good job of trying to do that, but I don't think there's ever an end point when it comes to creating diversity and creating stories that people can relate to.

Every author does not write for every reader

I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.