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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.
I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
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.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
I've got to say my mother is the most important woman in my life, and not just because she is a 'Scotsman' reader.
I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.