Quotes About Reader

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.