Reader Quotes - page 30

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. (Adam Carolla)
I am not a good cue card reader. View quote
Adam Carolla
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.' View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me. View quote
Athol Fugard
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader. View quote
Beth Richardson Gutcheon
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. View quote
Barbara Park
I'm an avid biography reader. View quote
Brent Spiner
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred. View quote
Buzz Bissinger
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. View quote
Caitlin Flanagan
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books. (Chad Hurley)
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that. View quote
Charles Palliser
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. View quote
Claire Messud
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. View quote
Dakota Blue Richards
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. View quote
David McCullough
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. View quote
David McCullough
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. View quote
Dan Chaon
A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end. View quote
Donald E. Graham
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. (Dave Gibbons)
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text. View quote
Edward Hirsch
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. View quote
Edward Hirsch
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.' View quote
Frank J. Tipler
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' View quote
Giles Andreae