Quotes About Readers

I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

There are a few 'Raw Shark Texts' tattoos floating around the Internet now, so I'm gathering them up to post on my forum. It's a strange thought, knowing that readers are tattooing themselves with something I've created, but it feels wonderful to have added something that people care about to the world.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.

It cannot be evil to strip away superstitions, prejudices and inhibitions when they stand in the way of harmless physical pleasures, but Sade compulsively develops his narrative to culminate in evil-doing that cannot fail to alienate his readers.

In The Sentence, books are matters of life and death, and readers reach through unknowable realms to maintain some connection to the written word. So with the bookstore.

Capítulos compridos quadram melhor a leitores pesadões; e nós não somos um público in-fólio, mas in-12, pouco texto, larga margem, tipo elegante, corte dourado e vinhetas... principalmente vinhetas... Não, não alonguemos o capítulo.

The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Rather than the grey and dreary institutions of public perception, these should be places of innovation and experiment, where readers can take a chance on a book, pick one because they like the look of the cover or the title or because they see it returned by the gorgeous young man who lives in their street. After all, they will have absolutely nothing to lose. The book will be free.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.

For all the invisible girls and for my readers, for seeing me

Readers respond to authenticity, originality and excitement, even if it's not packaged in a way they expect.

Let, therefore, pious readers learn to hate and detest those profane   sophists, who thus deliberately corrupt and adulterate the Scriptures,   in order that they may give some color to their delusions.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Any subject of the writing is valuable if that has received significant coverage by academics and ordinary readers. The non-acceptance of any group makes the subject negligible.