Reader Quotes

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 was quite a reader before I became a writer.

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.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

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

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

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

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

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