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Reader, I married him. -- Charlotte Bronte
Reader, I literally married him. -- Charlotte Bronte
Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists -- Russell Kirk
Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing. -- Karen Kingsbury
Reader look, not on his picture but his book. -- Ben Jonson
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I. -- Gary D. Schmidt
The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. -- Gabriel Fackre
Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. -- Howard Pyle
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. -- Benjamin Franklin
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance. -- Kate Winslet
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. -- Anne Roiphe
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. -- Charles Lamb
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. -- Douglas Adams
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. -- Margaret Fuller
The paper is patient, but the reader is not. -- Joseph Joubert
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. -- George R. R. Martin
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. -- Isaac Asimov
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. -- William Randolph Hearst
I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. -- Kanye West
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. -- Michael Chabon
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. -- Dean Koontz
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. -- John Cheever
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. -- Stendhal
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. -- William Lyon Phelps
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. -- Hilde Domin
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. -- Jodi Picoult
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. -- A. S. Byatt
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. -- Ray Bradbury
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail. -- John Templeton
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy -- Diane Setterfield
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. -- Lee Child
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. -- Margaret Atwood
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. -- Kate DiCamillo
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -- Maya Angelou
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. -- Margaret Atwood
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish. -- Alice Munro
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. -- P. L. Travers
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. -- E. L. Doctorow
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. -- John Keats
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. -- David Walliams
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
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. -- George F. Kennan
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. -- Sue Grafton
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. -- Monica Ali
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. -- Leo Rosten
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. -- Stephen King
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. -- William S. Burroughs
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else. -- Dawn French
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' -- Maya Angelou
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. -- Chris Abani
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. -- Ann Voskamp
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. -- Irving Penn
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. -- Isabel Allende
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' -- Thomas Sowell
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' -- John Krasinski
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? -- John Burdett
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. -- Leslie Cockburn
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. -- Margaret Atwood
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. -- Barbara Park
I'm a voracious reader. -- Howard Schultz
A leader is a reader. -- John C. Maxwell
I was a precocious reader. -- Norman Spinrad
Every text assumes a reader. -- Alberto Manguel
I'm an avid biography reader. -- Brent Spiner
I'm a really eclectic reader. -- Alice Hoffman
I am an avid reader. -- June Squibb
Captures the reader with true magic. -- Esther M. Friesner
I hope to offend every reader. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! -- Charles Baudelaire
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. -- Alberto Manguel
Entertaining the reader is a good function. -- David Denby
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. -- Mason Cooley
I was not a big comic-book reader. -- Brad Bird
Not every book is for every reader. -- Meg Waite Clayton
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. -- Fanny Fern
When I read, I'm purely a reader -- Anne Tyler
a good reader makes a good book -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need a leader, not a reader. -- Herman Cain
It's what the reader thinks that counts. -- Tibor Fischer
An active and creative reader is a re-reader. -- Vladimir Nabokov
There's relief in white space for the reader. -- Leni Zumas
Each servant stamps the reader with a look. -- John Ashbery
One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads. -- H. L. Mencken
Be an active reader; not a passive reader. -- Angelo Quiamco
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. -- James Joyce
I have been a voracious reader for years. -- Jacob Tomsky
I'd been a thriller reader all my life. -- Lee Child
I am not a good cue card reader. -- Adam Carolla
Are you a reader? Well, good for you! -- Love The Stacks Bookstore
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. -- John Barton
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. -- Saul Bellow
I've always been a reader and a writer. -- Laini Taylor
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... -- Barbara Pym
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. -- Mason Cooley
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. -- Isaac Asimov
No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble. -- Vera Caspary
I was a very keen reader of science fiction. -- Terry Pratchett
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. -- Manuel Puig
A book brings its own history to the reader. -- Alberto Manguel
So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. -- Johnny Rich
Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader. -- Janet Evanovich
I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. -- Larry Niven
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. -- Richard Peck
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? -- Ian Mcewan
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. -- Mohsin Hamid
Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. -- Robert Collier
Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
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Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life. -- Avinash Kaushik
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. -- Khaled Hosseini
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force. -- A.A. Attanasio

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