Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.
I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.