Quotes About Readers

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

There is also a running wobble between extreme precision, specious or otherwise, and approximation ("just over fifteen hundred", "just over sixty-nine percent"), so the whole risks annoying non-geek and ultra-geek readers, garnering the worst of both worlds.

About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five.   The average numbers of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.

I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their own homes or on park benches or on public buses, in the corner of the reference room, at the end of an aisle of fiction, in the middle of the alphabet, they club up and conspire.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked.

It's not my job to make readers know what's a narrative voice and not the private view of the author," and that alone made me glad I had come.

It's not my job to make readers know what's a narrative voice and not the private view of the author

In the long term, the print revolution turned out to be a boon for Aristotle. His works could be studied by more readers than ever, in cleaned-up versions.

E agora tinha a certeza de uma coisa vislumbrada ao princípio (...) que não há dois livros iguais porque nunca houve dois leitores iguais. E que cada livro lido é, como cada ser humano, um livro singular, uma história única e um mundo à parte.

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!