Reader Quotes

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

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 do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.