633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it? Amish Tripathi

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If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything. Amity Shlaes

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott

Wise Must Wisely Well Reader Quote

With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend. Amy Gerstler

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Anatole Broyard

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I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful. Andrew Clements

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I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts. Andrew Gross

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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. Andrew Pyper

Had Make Reader Afraid

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading. Andrew Sean Greer

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Andrew Wyeth

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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. Andy Weir

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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s. Anjelica Huston

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Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes. Ann Leckie

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When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?' Ann Leckie

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Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down. Annalee Newitz

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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. Anne McCaffrey

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form. Anne Michaels

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When I read, I'm purely a reader. Anne Tyler

Purely Read Reader

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest. Ansel Elgort

Big To Be Honest Reader Honest

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. Anthony Horowitz

Books Perfect He He Or She She Read Reader Just

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life. Anthony Marra

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'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'. Antony Johnston

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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly. Antonya Nelson

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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.' Ashwin Sanghi

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