Reader Quotations | Page 4

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Every text assumes a reader.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

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

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Reader, I married him.

Reader, I literally married him.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Writing is hard for me, ... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out.

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

We are pleased that we have engaged the American reader in the voting process for a significant book award, We're delighted with the outstanding works of the well-regarded nominees--authors who we were proud to honor here tonight. We look forward to growing the Quills in the years to come.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

With the previous system, a meter reader could check an average of 1,000 meters a day. Under the new system, a meter reader can read up to 4,000 meters a day.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.

This test provides an important opportunity to work with our international partners...to put in place an e-Passport reader solution by the end of fall (September--November) of this year.

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see,

These books are feeding that same reader who has been starved for more books like The D a Vinci Code .

The storm clouds had been building. Mr. Klein is a great reader of the political signs and he must have known in his heart it was time to go. He has a chance to go out on his own steam or be pushed out.

The program is designed to collect and process green waste only, but your reader is correct that paper is compost-able as well.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

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

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

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.

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.

Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

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A lot of people are dissatisfied with the so-called mainstream media, and they'll sample us? When you're abroad, you buy and read The International Herald Tribune. Here, you read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times. You're a regular reader of The New Republic. Probably the same itch that makes you exercise your brain on dense, serious news organs will make you watch us.

San Francisco is a classic bike town, and it is beloved by everybody. In our online reader poll, more readers chose San Francisco than any other city but Portland. There is a culture of cycling ? there are bike clubs, there's the messenger culture and there are long-standing community activities centered around cycling.

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Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

First of all, Reader has utility beyond digitized books, incorporating features that permit consumers to download and read personal documents and capture Internet content. As a result, users can carry around a wide variety of reading materials, including books, Internet content, and personal/business files in one small device.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

You need to be a reader to be a smart consumer and an intelligent citizen. To help boys, we need to realize they have a different take on reading.

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job, ... We laugh our butts off when we do them. They are over-the-top, but the reader knows they're hyperbolic.

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job. We laugh our butts off when we do them. They are over-the-top, but the reader knows they're hyperbolic.

In general, I think, less is more and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.