Reader Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Long, Retreat

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• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

  Chris Hughes

  Reading, Years, Majority

  "New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media" By Brian Stelter, Michael J. de la Merced, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Two, Rivers, Political

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

  Tony Hillerman

  Attitude, Two, Mind

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• I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Reading, Writing, Wife

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• I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

  Janis Ian

  Book, Avid, Car

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• Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

  Leslie Jamison

  Nice, Book, Writing

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• I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Kissing, First Kiss

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• Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

  Sidney Hook

  Political, Attention, Landscape

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• I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Thinking, Artist, Accepted

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