Quotes About Reader

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Our time together is drawing short, my reader. Possibly you will view these pages of mine as a fragile treasure box, to be opened with the utmost care. Possibly you will tear them apart, or burn them: that often happens to words.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

John Gardner wrote that the writer is creating a dream into which he or she invites the reader, and that the dream must be vivid and continuous.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Holy Scripture is the work of the Holy Ghost, it can be rightly and infallibly interpreted by Him alone or under His guidance. Now, God did not promise the Holy Ghost to every reader of the Bible, but only to the Church.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.

good person, a mom and a teacher, a reader and a thinker, the most generous friend in what she was willing to accept and forgive.

A book for the general reader on an esoteric subject has to argue for its own interestingness by being interesting. And never argue for its own importance, which a work of scholarship may do. I consider the balancing act of "being accessible" a discipline rather than a limitation.

Frankl said that he wrote the book "to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.