Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
Avi Arad

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
Timothy West

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
Sara Paretsky

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Jeffery Deaver

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
Henry Fonda

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
Melvin Maddocks

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Logan P. Smith

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
David Wilkerson

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Muriel Rukeyser

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Harvey Pekar

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
Len Wein

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Donald Norman

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
Jeffery Deaver