Reader Quotes - Page 14

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

Naguib Mahfouz

Taken, Comprehension, Allegory

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Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Marco Arment

Writing, Quality, Abandonment

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The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Rosemary Wells

Children, Book, Heart

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If you would be a writer, first be a reader

Allan W. Eckert

Would Be, Firsts, Ifs

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If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Writing, Different, Asks

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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Aileen Fisher

Writing, Feelings, Pieces

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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Dream, Glasses, Doubt

E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.67, Oxford University Press, USA

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Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

Jason Ellis

Character, Giving, Fantasy Stories

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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Gertrude Stein

Writing, Stranger, Dear

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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William Safire

Mind, Able, Companion

"Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

James Laughlin

Break Up, Block, Writing

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In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

Raymond E. Feist

Moving On, Bored, Assumption

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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

John Updike

Country, Writing, Who Cares

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This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Wietse Venema

Writing, Computer, Surprise

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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

Dorothea Brande

Philosophy, Mind, Prejudice

Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

Keith Donohue

New Orleans, America, Grace

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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Gaston Bachelard

Reading, Passion, Temptation

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Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Max Beerbohm

Hate, School, Boys

Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time. Amaryllis's voice is a spellbinding and unique blend of naivet and wisdom. A perfect melding of family saga, murder mystery and a meditation on faith, loyalty and love, this novel will both haunt and entertain you.

Susan Wiggs

Loyalty, Unique, Voice

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Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

Antonya Nelson

Taken, Character, Hardship

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I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Hugh Howey

Media, People, Use

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I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

Father, Imagination, World

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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Michael Chabon

Book, Fire, Rereading

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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Steven Saylor

Distance, Details, Gazing

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Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

Paul Krugman

Running, Silly, Book

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