Reader Quotes - Page 27

• Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

  Meg Cabot

  Character, Stories, Passionate

  "Writing Tips from Meg Cabot!". www.seventeen.com. September 4, 2008.

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• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Writing, People, Poet

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• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Reading, Creative, Trying

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• One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Soapbox, Want

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• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Book, Funny Things, Fans

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• Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Book, Messages

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• The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

  Billy Collins

  Keys, Dna, Signatures

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• The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.

  Chester Brown

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

  James Ellroy

  Ambiguous, Provoking, Response

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• I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Fiction

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". "Morning Edition", nhpr.org. March 13, 2012.

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• To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

  Dave Eggers

  Simple, Support, Dollars

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

  Christopher Moore

  Communication, Needs, Want

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• In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Support, Catholic

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• Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Reading, Hero, Intelligent

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• President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

  Pierre Salinger

  Forever, President, Information

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• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Writing, Triumph, Stories

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• Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Loyalty

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Humorous, Book, Laughing

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• I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

  Marco Arment

  Publishers, Values

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• People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

  Marco Arment

  People, Attention, Magazines

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• I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Confession, Interest

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• 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.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Events, Fans, Down And

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