Reader Quotes - page 27

As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down. (Kami Garcia)
Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. View quote
Karin Slaughter
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. View quote
Kate Morton
I do open endings on purpose. I expect a lot from my readers. I want them to do much of the work, because I believe that the story is built by the reader, not by the writer. I like having an open ending to a standalone fantasy, because it allows a continuing story to be written in the hearts of the readers. View quote
Kelly Barnhill
There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader. View quote
Ken Liu
The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions. View quote
Ken Liu
It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous. View quote
Ken Liu
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. View quote
Ken Follett
I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop. View quote
Kresley Cole
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. (Curtis Sittenfeld)
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book. View quote
Alan Bradley
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands. View quote
Alan Bradley
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. View quote
Lev Grossman
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men. View quote
Leila Slimani
I've always been a reader and a writer. View quote
Laini Taylor
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly. View quote
Lydia Davis
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to. View quote
Lisa Gardner
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting. View quote
Lauren Groff
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain. (Lauren Groff)
If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people. View quote
Lawrence Wright
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. View quote
Ben Okri
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. View quote
Jo Nesbo
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants. View quote
Jo Nesbo