633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Jean M. Auel

Time Science Long Long Time Enjoy Think Books Since Genre Reader Readers Science Fiction Understand Surprised Been Fiction Might Fantasy

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges. Jeff Kinney

Entertainment Age Writing Reading Impress Lesson Other Books Kid Kids Out Run Moral See Direction Adult Message Obvious Reader Judges Sniff Any Taught Literary Agenda Should Fun Early Early Age

One of my favorite things about the DC Universe, growing up as a reader, was just how big it was and just how many characters and superheroes there were. And how many odd characters there were. Jeff Lemire

Big Universe Favorite Characters Favorite Things About Superheroes Reader How Odd Were Up Just Many Growing Growing Up Things

I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader. Jeff Lemire

Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality. Jeff Lindsay

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

Care Long About Attention Reader Trying Keep

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings. Jeffrey Thomas

You Elusive Strings Must Hopefully Toughest Reader Leave Than Beginnings Expectations Endings Frustrate Them Your Grasping Satisfy Harder

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be. Jennifer A. Nielsen

Write Reader Wants Your Who

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'. Jennifer Egan

You First Wild Omniscient Back Rules Pretty Seem Take Like Read Reader First-Person Got Go Lecturing Lot Lots Times Person Don Quixote Quixote Break Experimental Happening Century Novels Earliest Extent Chances

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. Jennifer Egan

States Mutually Mutually Exclusive Somehow Writer Exclusive Reader Happiest Apparently Coexist

The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath. Jenny Zhang

Think Immediately Kind Would See More Unsolvable Also Likes Reader Underneath Surface Arresting Stories Who Showy Deeper Violence Lurks

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. Jerry B. Jenkins

Character Impossible Mind Few Own Idea Like Looks Reader His Place Theater Forms Each Her Compete Suggestions

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story. Jerry Spinelli

While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader. Jesmyn Ward

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences. Jesse Kellerman

Time Good Events Crime Beginning Spend Out Logically Rather Individual Mystery Writer Investigation Clear Force Reader Deal End Than Efficiently Expectations Expects Middle Sentences Working Good Deal Novels Play Resolution

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace. Joanna Scott

Marketplace Complex Pressures Given Demand Global Make Reader Becoming Effort Literary Justify Products Works Harder Profitable

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth. Joanna Southcott

Day Omit Earth Visited Shall Day And Night Concerning Reader Coming Begin Former Informing Strangely Whole Night

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader. Joe R. Lansdale

Plot Like Reader Surprised Plan

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