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Now, don't get all weepy on me dear reader.No chin-quivering or nose-sniveling, either. These pages do not need to be all soggy with your mucus.
— James Patterson
And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light.
— Kate DiCamillo
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
— Robert A. Caro
It is not the editor I have to please, it is the reader. It is the reader who signs my pay check.
— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
— Henning Mankell
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
— Greg Van Eekhout
Literary works quite often 'know' things that the reader does not know, or does not know yet, or perhaps will never know.
— Terry Eagleton
I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.
— Walter Mosely
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
— Marie De Gournay
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
— E.L. Doctorow
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
— Frederic G. Kenyon
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
— Jonathan Franzen
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
— Brandon Mull
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
— Ben Jonson
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
— Adam Carolla
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
— David Foster Wallace
Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.
— Massimo Marino
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
— David Richards
When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.
— Stephen King
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
— Julia Alvarez
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
— Kelly Gallagher
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.
— Philip K. Dick
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
— Nicholson Baker
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
— Natalie Goldberg
I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.
— Brian Reynolds Myers
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.
— Harold Bloom
A happy reader is a sane readeran unhappy one
well...not so much. — Suzanne Steele
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
— Joseph Joubert
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.
— Lynne Tillman
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
— Stewart O'Nan
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
— A.W. Tozer
Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.
— Cecelia Ahern
Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
— Karen Kingsbury
Regret for the things you have done can be tempered with time, It's regret for the things you have not doen that is inconsolable.
— Reader's Digest Association
The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
— Mortimer J. Adler
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
If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
— Robert Frost
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.
— Grant Morrison
If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that.
— Julian Barnes
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
— Paul Di Filippo
It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
— Joyce Maynard
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
I was not a big comic-book reader.
— Brad Bird
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
To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.
— Kaela Marooney
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
— Macaulay Culkin
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
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
The law does not require you to be a mind-reader
— Richard Harris
A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.
— Mark Rubinstein
I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.
— Ciara Renee
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
— William Goldman
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
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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
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
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
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
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
— Rod Serling
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
— Jane Smiley
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
— David Foster Wallace
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
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.
— Edward Hirsch
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
— Mark Twain
But this one was a writer, not a reader.
— Anthony Burgess
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
— Franz Grillparzer
To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.
— Django Wexler
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
— Paul Auster
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.
— Paul Gibbons
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
— Avi Arad
