Top 1200 Reader Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.
Of all the reader questions I get each week, the most common question I get is, 'What are you wearing?'
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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.
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
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.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
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.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.
Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.
If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.
Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.
That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
