Reader Quotes

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

Hero, Happen, Novel

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
John Cheever

Alone, Write, Kiss

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

Yourself, Someone, Book

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace

Art, Trying, Become

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
David Foster Wallace

Life, Idea, Story

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

God, Eyes, Becomes

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
David Foster Wallace

Saying, Die, Order

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

Great, Read, Library

I'm a slow reader.
Benicio Del Toro

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard

Aspiring, Appetite, Pancake

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
Alexander McCall Smith

Nice, Mother, Character

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow

Work, Someone, May

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Reese Witherspoon

Play, Kids, While

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
Jo Nesbo

Life, Big, Youth

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
Jo Nesbo

Change, Good, Book

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
Jo Nesbo

Great, Writing, Before

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

Challenge, Reading, Draw

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton

Poetry, Makes, Exciting

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
John Barton

Good, Knows, Blind

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton

Poetry, Effect, Views

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
John Barton

God, Knows, Ideal

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green

True, Book, Person

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.
Justin Cronin

Writing, Teach, Fiction

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Justin Cronin

Pretty, Learn, Write

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

Between, Difficult, Writer

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing, Between, Reading

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
Jim Lehrer

Time, Daily, Through

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
Marilyn Hacker

Help, Whether, Develop

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'
Mitch Albom

Book, Two, Wait

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, Become, Able

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