Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

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

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Susan Vreeland

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Laini Taylor

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Eudora Welty

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Henning Mankell

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Iris Johansen

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.