Top 141 Readership Quotes & Sayings

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for 'Nimona' came because I was active on Tumblr.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In my case, it felt really nice that a certain type of readership read the book and liked it, even though my readership is not as wide as certain popular books.

There's a really generous readership with YA.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chicago is my biggest base for U.S. readership. If I ask my readers where should I come, Chicago always has the most votes.

City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.