633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. Karen Joy Fowler

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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader. Karen Traviss

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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. Karen Traviss

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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams. Kate Bernheimer

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that. Kate Bernheimer

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I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. Kate DiCamillo

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Honestly, before I started working at the comic shop, I was not a huge comic reader. I grew up reading 'Archie' and have an incredible love/hate relationship with Archie Comics. I got back into it when I started living with some roommates who were really comics fanatics. Kate Leth

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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at. Kate Thompson

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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance. Kate Winslet

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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader. Kate Winslet

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Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book. Katherine Dunn

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Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her. Katherine Paterson

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I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky

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When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life. Keith Hernandez

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