Reader Quotes

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

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.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

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.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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'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.