633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped. Nick Hornby

Me Out Scared Tend Reader Readers Lots Hang Stopped Want Reasons Whole

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader - your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow. Nick Petrie

Heart Will Faster Way Visceral Out Physical Something Scene Adrenaline Beat Written Exciting Involved Well Make Reader Effect Get Happen Page Your Figure Fun Actually Level Start Flow

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle. Nina Tassler

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

You Framework Write Category Knowing Reader Expectations

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues. Norbert Leo Butz

College Reading Feminism Teenage Books Pretty Daughters Mary Take Writers Had Development Missed Read Reader Course Reading Books Issues Lot Did Where Different Then Avid Two

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story. Paolo Bacigalupi

Me Book Somebody Down Think Enough Tell Someone Give Give Me Arguing Ideal Conception Reader Ultimately Lot Matured Sitting Going Quite Intention Quite A Lot Automatically Story Slack

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV. Paolo Bacigalupi

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier. Patricia Briggs

Reality Book Old Big Down Extra Everything Easier Magic Counter He He Or She Put Leap She Reader Knows Makes Wizard Go Werewolf Lot Huge Swallow Whether Asking Helping

Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. Patrick Modiano

You Age Digital Before Digital Age Way Bit Visible Photograph Photographs Darkroom Similar Something Through Takes Developing Between Read Reader Became Printed Chemical Did Same Happens Process Place Which Your Novel

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'. Patrick Ness

You Feeling Important Call Reader How Climax Leave Exit

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. Paul G. Tremblay

Mind King Writer Never Stephen King Reader Became Because

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification. Paul Harding

You Experience World Will Once Out All The Difference Find About Mysterious Mystery Write Between Conceit Cliche Reader Opinion Stylistic Prove Truly Precisely Human Difference Human Experience Your Figures Received

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. Paul Rand

Balance Mind Own Pleasure Adjust Lies Observing Overcoming Partly Reader Greater Arrangements His Which Interest Creates Derived Spectator

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

Pleasure Given Writer Equal Reader Gets Often

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader. Paul Theroux

You Travel People Sense Think Books Would Trip Writer Take Never Never Take Read Reader Because Doing Intend Either

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. Paulo Coelho

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared. Penny Jordan

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? Per Petterson

Good Me Blame Matter Long First Slightly Would Kinds About Seems Both Like Reader Although Does Always Quarrel Expected Common Which Disjointed Storytelling Prefer Preferable Straight Epic Naturalistic Who Her

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers. Peter Mayer

Work Failure You Writing Words Revolution Publish Other Books Characters Be Real Brothers About Seems He Written French Well Reader French Revolution Because Context Real In Other Words Whether Serious Publisher

Reader Quotes

No more reader quotes