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Quotes About Readers

The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.
~ Unknown
think. The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.
~ Unknown
Loads of gratitude are also due to the teams in art, design, production, marketing, publicity, and sales. Thank you for contributing your incredible talents. Without your work, stories would literally sit on shelves undiscovered and unread. You connect books to readers, and in doing that, you connect people to one another. If books can change the world, those of you who help bring them to the world are the change agents.
~ Unknown
To the best readers on the planet—romance readers! I'm grateful to each one of you every single day.
~ Jill Shalvis
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
~ Gary Shteyngart
People want to hear a message that "appeal to some universal self-interest." Truth is unimportant as long as we "give them a spiritual high." Such a false gospel has generated a large group of readers consisting of those who consider themselves Christians but are not, and it is to these false converts that the businesses market their attractively packaged products.
~ Unknown
You have the greatest passion for your book so you need to show that passion and create an email list and different ways to connect with your readers.
~ Unknown
Book buying studies have proven a reader has to hear about your book multiple times before they reach into their wallet and purchase a book. The number of exposures to your book is somewhere between six and twelve times before you collect a sale. A key part of your platform building process as an author is to give readers multiple exposures to your book and the availability.
~ Unknown
Sell through multiple channels. Readers like plenty of choice when they go to purchase their books. Your book should be available in a variety of formats such as every type of Ebook paperback, hardcover and audiobook.
~ Unknown
Publishing in magazine is an under-used route for authors to reach readers. As a former magazine editor, I understand the power of reaching the audience…With one article, I have reached millions of people.
~ Unknown
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
~ W.H. Auden
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
~ Wietse Venema
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.
~ George Saunders
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
~ Kevin Sampsell
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it.
~ Dean Koontz
What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
~ Matthew Reilly
We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.
~ Sudha Murty
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
~ J. A. Konrath
This direct quote is from Publisher's Weekly about this series: "Hope Harbor is a place of emotional restoration that readers will yearn to visit.
~ Irene Hannon
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
~ Isaac Newton
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message ' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
~ Isabel Allende
Those people who prefer intuition are so engrossed in pursuing the possibilities it presents that they seldom look very intently at the actualities. For instance, readers who prefer sensing will tend to confine their attention to what is said here on the page. Readers who prefer intuition are likely to read between and beyond the lines to the possibilities that come to mind.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
Readers are my vampires.
~ Italo Calvino