Quotes About Readers

Deviants and losers and mutants and the loveless...were the proper readers of Marvel comics.

End with a Call to Action A persuasive book description should finish with a bang, rather than a whimper. Tell the reader to buy your book. You may think this step is a crass or unnecessary, but nothing could be further from the truth. Never forget how easy it is for a shopper on Amazon to leave your book page and buy a different book instead.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Il campo @author di un Javadoc ci dice chi siamo. Siamo gli autori. E una caratteristica degli autori è che hanno dei lettori. In effetti, è responsabilità degli autori riuscire a comunicare bene coi loro lettori. La prossima volta che scriverete una riga di codice, ricordatevi che voi ne siete gli autori, e che scrivete a dei lettori che vi giudicheranno per quello che avrete scritto.

Remember that the people who read your code will be programmers.

Forms and mannerisms...hated by the best, loved by the worst. Year after year, decade after decade of little front-row readers, mimics with pretty smiles and neat pens, out to get their Aristotelian A's while those who possess the real areté sit silently in back of them wondering what is wrong with themselves that they cannot like this subject.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals...

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

Some readers might think that because I am so successful, I have never made a mistake.

It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

But why would readers seek to be the readers of their own selves? Why does Proust privilege the connection between ourselves and works of art, as much in his novel as in his museum habits? One answer is because it is the only way in which art can properly affect rather than simply distract us from life

Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and as much creatures of the readers imagination as the characters in their books.

Presto la regina decise che probabilmente era meglio incontrare gli autori dentro le pagine dei romanzi, creature dell'immaginazione del lettore come i personaggi. Non sembravano neppure grati a chi aveva letto i loro libri; erano loro ad averci fatto la cortesia di scriverli.

while most readers recognize the profound wisdom imbued in Tao Te Ching, the language remains mysterious to many. Utter simplicity can seem confusing to the complicated mind.

All books want our attention, but not all of them want the same kind of attention, and good readers know this and make the necessary adjustments.

These days, superhero comics think the audience is certainly not nine to 13, it's nothing to do with them. It's an audience largely of 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-year old men, usually men. Someone came up with the term graphic novel. These readers latched on to it; they were simply interested in a way that could validate their continued love of Green Lantern or Spider-Man without appearing in some way emotionally subnormal.