The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
Mark Haddon

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
Ken Hill

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
David Foster Wallace

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Nathalie Sarraute

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.
Francis Parkman

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
Tobias Wolff

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
John Barton

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Tom Wolfe

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
Campbell Scott

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
Francis X. Clines

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
Jerry B. Jenkins

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
Anne McCaffrey

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
Davy Jones

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

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Jerzy Kosinski