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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
— Fernando Pessoa
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
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
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
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
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
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
— David Starkey
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
What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *
— Jeff VanderMeer
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
Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.
— Anita Nair
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 meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
— Wallace Stegner
[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
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
The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.
— Gabriel Fackre
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
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
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
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
No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
The author paints a picture in the mind of the reader.
— Darrell Case
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
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
To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.
— Kaela Marooney
He'll be dead soon. He can't live', said the father.
But reader, he did live.
This is the story. — Kate DiCamillo
But reader, he did live.
This is the story. — Kate DiCamillo
Memory. Symbol. Pattern. These are the three items that, more than any other, separate the professorial reader from the rest of the crowd.
— Thomas C. Foster
In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.
— Michel Houellebecq
-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.
-Because the reader changes.
-EXACTLY — Doug Dorst
-Because the reader changes.
-EXACTLY — Doug Dorst
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
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
— Meghan Daum
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
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
— Edward Gibbon
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
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.
— John O'Hara
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.
— Cynthia Lewis
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
— Macaulay Culkin
Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds.
— Debasish Mridha
As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
— Harper Lee
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
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
— James Randolph Adams
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
— Jonathan Ames
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
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
— Rod Serling
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
— Walter Benjamin
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
You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
— Sarah Hall
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
[...] 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
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
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
A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.
— Mark Rubinstein
I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.
— Nelson DeMille
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 was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
— Margaret Stohl
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
— Barbara Delinsky
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
— Reid Scott
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
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
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