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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

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

Books are not fixed objects: they transmit words and ideas. Their effect on each reader is unique. They put pictures in our minds. They take root. You — John Connolly

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie De Gournay

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. — Dan Brown

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. — Leo Burnett

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

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. — S.A. Tawks

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

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got. — Eddi Reader

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

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. — Henry Miller

Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader. — Massimo Marino

The point is not to let the orthography distract the reader from the meaning. — Mary Norris

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

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author. — Charles Lamb

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 reader
an unhappy one
well...not so much. — Suzanne Steele

The paper is patient, but the reader is not. — Joseph Joubert

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it. — S.A. Tawks

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader. — John Petrucci

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

A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation. — Tony Reinke

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

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action. — Rob Roberge

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

[...] 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

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

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

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

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

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

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it. — Sadie Jones

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

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself. — Julia Quinn

If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's. — Don Roff

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

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. — Mark Twain

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

It's not what happens to people on the page; it's about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind. — Gordon Lish

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra