Quotes About Readers

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

We have to do so much, especially in my own country, that our minds gradually cease to be creative, and yet we cannot help it. If our life was a continual Warfare, we would not have taste, we would not know what is good, we would not find hearers and readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining particular adaptations, into the non-teleological language which their own theory of adaptation requires. But they have never paid, or even tried to pay, this debt.

I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.

Los lectores siempre se encuentran a sí mismo, de una forma o de otra, en un libro. Leer es un estímulo completamente egoísta. Buscamos inconscientemente lo que nos dice algo. Por muy estrambóticas o improbables que sean las historias que los escritores crean, siempre habrá lectores que les dirán: «¡Increíble! ¡Ha escrito usted mi vida!»

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.