Reader Quotes - Page 30

• The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

  Jeff Abbott

  Reading, Entertainment, Compliment

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• I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

  Jhene Aiko

  Twilight, Writing, Potters

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• It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Attention, Difficult

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• Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

  Marc Andreessen

  Complaining, Want, Taste

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• I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

  Monica Ali

  Leaving, Brain, Asking

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

  Alan Bradley

  Fun, Book, Character

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". March 8, 2013, www.reuters.com. Interview with Noreen O'Donnell.

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• I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Father, Book

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• Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Book, Trying, Pages

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Stories, Care

  "Jennifer Egan Does Avant-Garde Fiction - Old School". Interview with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 25, 2010.

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• The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Kids, Intelligent, Speak

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• Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Pages, Lord, Changed

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• I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

  Joseph J. Ellis

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• I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Europe, People

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• Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving

  A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

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• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Hero, Writing, Hands

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• There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Ideas, Want

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• I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Careers

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• This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

  Emil Artin

  Science, Important, Doe

  Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Science, Understanding

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cheating, Writing, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

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• The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Wall, Book

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• If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

  Mark Twain

  Looks, Too Much, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.254, eKitap Projesi

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• The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Opportunity, Diversity, Internet

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• Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  Rachel Gibson

  Book, Order, Three

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