Reader Quotes - Page 28

• I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

  Amber Benson

  Selfish, Real, Book

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• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  Carl Barks

  Character, Differences, Faces

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• 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

  Country, Believe, Broken

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

  Terry Brooks

  Real, Other Worlds, Want

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• Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Made, Obvious

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Reading, Literature

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• 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.

  Chris Crutcher

  Reading, Book, Stories

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• 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.

  Dan Chaon

  Stories, World, Kind

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

  Sharon Creech

  Book

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• At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

  Ally Carter

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Online, Ifs

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

  Marco Arment

  Reading, Giving, Devices

  "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Character, Way, Sympathetic

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

  Aravind Adiga

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Kids, World

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• I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

  Sharon Creech

  Book, Writing, Comfort

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• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  Gary Coleman

  Intelligent, Opinion, Journalism

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• In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Smart, Firsts, Cases

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• I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

  Robert Cailliau

  Pay, Economics, Minutes

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• I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

  Robert Carlyle

  Balls, Television, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  Simon Callow

  Doctors, Years, Film

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• Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

  Jonathan Dee

  Kind, Novel, Wells

  "Five Questions for Jonathan Dee" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.

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• The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Yield, Things In Life, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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• The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

  Sylvia Day

  Would Be, Stories, World

  "Interview: Sylvia Day, author of 'Bared to You'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 23, 2012.

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