Quotes About Readers

Quain soleva ripetere che i lettori sono una specie ormai estinta. Non v'é europeo - ragiovana, - che non sia uno scrittore, in potenza o in atto. Affermava anche che, tra le diverse felicitá che puó procurare la letteratura, la piú alta é l'invenzione.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta. «No hay europeo -razonaba-que no sea un escritor, en potencia o en acto.» Afirmaba también que de las diversas felicidades que puede ministrar la literatura, la más alta era la invención.

She's always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.

breaking of the celebratory mood. For George Kearns, one of the most perceptive of Pound's readers

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

A good author, Mr. Minke, should be able to provide his readers with some joy, not a false joy, but some faith that life is beautiful. While suffering is man-made, and not some natural disaster, then it can surely be resisted by men. Give hope to your readers, to your fellow countrymen.

There should be a new literary resolution: no more epiphanies. Enough. Have pity on readers who reach the end of a real-life conflict in confusion and don't experience a false sense of temporary enlightenment.

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

It's crazy to think my blog is being read by people around the world.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

He had begun Democracy in America by warning his readers that "Whoever should imagine that I have intended to write a panegyric would be strangely mistaken," adding later that "there are certain truths which the Americans can only learn from strangers. . . .

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.

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Building a relationship with my readers is the very best thing about writing. I occasionally send newsletters with details on new releases, special offers and other bits of news relating to my Mystery novels. And if you sign up to the mailing list, I'll send you all