Quotes About Readers

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

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing.

Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as—in Ford Madox Ford's words—a "medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I'd like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement

The most similar activity to writing an API is writing a book: one writer and a lot of readers. The readers know something of the writer, but the writer knows little or nothing about the readers. Guessing their skills and knowledge correctly is part of the delicate art of making an API that is easy to understand.

America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers.

I'm not sure what readers want.

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

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

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.