Reader Quotes - page 33

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.' (Nathan Fillion)
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels. View quote
Nell Freudenberger
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. View quote
Nic Pizzolatto
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again. View quote
Nicholson Baker
I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game. View quote
Paula Creamer
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. View quote
Rick Atkinson
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader. View quote
Ron Rash
When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books. View quote
Rhea Perlman
I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk. View quote
Rich Sommer
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell. View quote
S. E. Hinton
I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation. (Simon Baker)
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again. View quote
Sophie Thompson
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. View quote
Steven Saylor
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. View quote
Suzanne Brockmann
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. View quote
Sara Zarr
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. View quote
Tobias Wolff
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry. View quote
Will Hobbs
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. View quote
Yusef Komunyakaa
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. (Randy K. Milholland)
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. View quote
Patricia Duncker
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. View quote
Nancy Springer
There was something so piquant and original in these elucidations of humanity, that Mr. Shelby could not help laughing in company. Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
We do our characters a disservice by allowing them to be flat. Our role as novelists is to do our best to portray the nuance of a whole range of life experiences. It's one of the things that fiction is uniquely positioned to do, to bring the reader into the interior life of people's experiences that are wildly different than our own... View quote
Carolina de Robertis