Readership Quotes

• Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

  Philip Levine

  People, Advice, Who Cares

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• I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

  Leo Lionni

  Change, Children, Book

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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 think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

  Joshua Ferris

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Books belong to their readers.

  John Green

  Book, Reader

  FaceBook post by John Green from Feb 02, 2014

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• My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Character, Reflection

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• I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

  Eve Bunting

  Strong, Book, Reading

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

  Pat Oliphant

  Editors, Facts, Politically Correct

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

  David Talbot

  White, Florida, House

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• I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

  Anne McCaffrey

  Encouragement, Media, Needs

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• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Reading, Scotland

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• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  Paul Conrad

  Ideas, Cartoon, Written

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• The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

  Mark Millar

  Breadth, Factors

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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  Dan Simmons

  Moving, Careers, Truth Is

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• I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Trying, Arrogant, Literature

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• In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Html, Flavor, Pages

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• Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

  Dave Barry

  Crazy, Reading, Literature

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• I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

  Kenneth Koch

  Years, People, Married

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• The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Successful, Editors

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• A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

  Warren Buffett

  Community, Important, News

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• The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

  John Leo

  Media, Opposites, Long

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Anxiety, Marketing, News

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Quality, Crafts

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin

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• I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Thinking, Historical, Important

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

  James Arthur

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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