Reader Quotes

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.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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.

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.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

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.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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.

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

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I'm a lousy reader.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.