633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let's analyze it a little - a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation. Vicky Kaushal

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey. Victor LaValle

Good Journey Spell Hoping Reader End Any In The End Spark Really

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long. Victor LaValle

Challenge Long Big Reader Big Challenge Fiction Place Keep

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. Vikram Seth

Though Silly Cater Reader Dear Wanted Might

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story. Virginia Henley

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Vivienne Westwood

Good You Good Person Big Tell Like Reader Child Person

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. Vladimir Nabokov

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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. Walter Jon Williams

Every Touchstone Robert Period Also Reader

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. Walter Jon Williams

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere. Walter Kirn

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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader. Will Self

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In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone. William Lashner

You Will Everyone Thrilling Leap Make Reader Jumps Fiction Moment

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray

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Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. William Safire

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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. Yann Martel

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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. Yusef Komunyakaa

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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. Zosia Mamet

Writing Wait See Someday Reader Am Might Avid

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. Douglas Coupland

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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given. Salman Rushdie

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I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader. Dustin Lance Black

Writer Never Reader Wanted Avid Initially Thing

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