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Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader. — Morris Gleitzman

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader. — L.A. Weatherly

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. — Stephen Moyer

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean. — Kurt Vonnegut

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story — Chuck Wendig

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

You should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader's mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don't. — Roald Dahl

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined. — S.A. Tawks

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality. — S.A. Tawks

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. — Twyla Tharp

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect. — Garth Greenwell

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. — Kevin Powers

Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo? — Robin Sloan

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. — Marilyn Hacker

At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon. — Michael Chabon

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. — Anthony Trollope

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding. — Lemony Snicket

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. — John O'Hara

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. — Kanye West

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. — Alberto Manguel

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right. — S.A. Tawks

Considering yourself a serious reader doesn't mean you can't read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off. — Lauren Leto

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life. — Aman Jassal

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals. — S.A. Tawks

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal. — Bernhard Schlink

I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library. — Debbie Macomber

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman

The author paints a picture in the mind of the reader. — Darrell Case

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. — Margaret Deland

Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction. — Ben Peek

I am a reader. Yes, I am that, a reader with nagging back pain. — Rabih Alameddine

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio. — William Safire

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time. — Andrea Riseborough

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

Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tell a captivating story so smoothly the reader never notices the details. — Sandra Ruttan

I was quite a reader before I became a writer. — Tom T. Hall

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. — Aleksandar Hemon

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results. — S.A. Tawks

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. — Aman Jassal

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better. — Amy Dickinson

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word. — Miranda Hart

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read. — Paul Auster

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears. — Michel Houellebecq

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader? — Cecelia Ahern

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness. — Sue Monk Kidd

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

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do. — Philip Kerr

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood

She broke first. "So no, I haven't seen it. I'm more of a reader." Reader, as in ... "And before you ask, no, I'm not a cheesy romance reader. — Riley Mackenzie

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee

A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed. — Samuel G. Freedman

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house. — Benjamin Percy

Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know. — Michel Houellebecq

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. — Stephen King

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time. — Terrance Zepke

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. — Maria Stoica

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. — Rod Serling

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. — Walter Benjamin

There is no better adviser than a good book. — Debasish Mridha

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart. — Mark Rubinstein

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about — Walter Benjamin

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. — Romesh Gunesekera

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose. — Chang-rae Lee

You may wish to spend a moment thinking about whether this person is an asset or a liability to your company — G.R. Reader

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. — Andre Dubus III

The law does not require you to be a mind-reader — Richard Harris

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life. — Elizabeth Langston

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid. — Ciara Renee

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! — Tess Gerritsen

A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it. — J.L. King

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately. — Michelle D. Kwasney

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. — Barbara Delinsky

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

Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. — Sara Zarr