Reader Quotes

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.