Reader Quotes - page 8

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. (Kevin J. Anderson)
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels. View quote
Barbara Pym
I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated. View quote
David Crystal
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. View quote
Paul Rand
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. View quote
Anita Diament
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. View quote
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. View quote
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him. (Asa Larsson)
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. View quote
Avi Arad
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them. View quote
C. J. Box
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. View quote
Charles Kuralt
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. View quote
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive. View quote
Chris Crutcher
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. View quote
David Maraniss
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. View quote
David Simon
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. View quote
Davy Jones
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country. (Evelyn Lauder)
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine. View quote
Edward Bok
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. View quote
Fay Godwin
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. View quote
Greg van Eekhout
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader. View quote
Garry Disher