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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
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
— Glen Cook
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
No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance!
— Dalai Lama XIV
Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one. — Kate DiCamillo
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
— Chuck Wendig
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
— Twyla Tharp
You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader's interest.
— Marc Levy
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
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
— Francine Rivers
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
— David Starkey
Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
— Gabrielle Dubois
This book will bring little joy to the reader.
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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
Let every reader do as his conscience bids him.
— Hermann Hesse
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
— Esther Freud
I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.
— Nelson DeMille
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.
— Ciara Renee
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life.
— Elizabeth Langston
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I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
— Margaret Stohl
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
— Michelle D. Kwasney
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
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
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
It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ...
— Laurence Sterne
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
— Lynne Tillman
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
— Don DeLillo
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
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
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
— Jonathan Evison
What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about
— Walter Benjamin
Reader, you have the will to overcome great confusion. Welcome to the Philosophy Corps.
— Leonard Finkelman
A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.
— Mark Rubinstein
You may wish to spend a moment thinking about whether this person is an asset or a liability to your company
— G.R. Reader
It's what the reader thinks that counts.
— Tibor Fischer
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
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
— Wallace Stegner
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
— Stephen King
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
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
— John Steinbeck
What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined.
— Daniel Kraus
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
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
The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader.
— Steve Dunham
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
— Joanne Harris
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
— Rod Serling
Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds.
— Debasish Mridha
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
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
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
Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
— Chang-rae Lee
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
— Reid Scott
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
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
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The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme
— Flannery O'Connor
The thinker as reader reads what has been written.He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ... — Wallace Stevens
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
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
— Barbara Delinsky
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
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -
— David Shields
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
Love your readers to death!
— Darren Rowse
Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
