Reader Quotes

I am not a good cue card reader.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I'm not really a big reader.

I'm a lousy reader.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

I'm a very slow reader.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I was a precocious reader.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I'm a slow reader.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.