Reader Quotes

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Will the reader turn the page?

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.