Quotes About Reader

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

That'Â's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about—and the reader is no fool.

El lector podrá observar en esta falacia del viaje de ida y vuelta la injusticia de los estereotipos;

Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

Hypocrite lecteur, – mon semblable, – mon frère !

Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.

presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she had made were too numerous to mention.

The things that you appreciate as a reader are also the things you'll likely excel at as a writer.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

My preference was the demolition of the lobby altogether. [Of all of my books], only Sula has this 'entrance.' The others refuse the 'presentation,' refuse the seductive safe harbor; the line of demarcation between…them and us. Refuse, in effect, to cater to the diminished expectations of the reader, or his or her alarm heightened by the emotional luggage one carries into the black-topic text….

In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader.

In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire, to the year 325.

Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.