Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

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