Quotes About Readers

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed.

I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my ovaries to 80-year-olds who send me emails. And, of course, women my age everywhere.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

The most important relationship the 'Guardian' has is with its readers.

In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numbers.... The future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $175. - 5/26/10

Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.