Top Reader Quotes

  • I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. – TaNehisi Coates

    I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.– TaNehisi Coates

  • Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start – Horace

    Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start– Horace

  • Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.– Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • If the writer doesn’t sweat, the reader will. – Mark Twain

    If the writer doesn’t sweat, the reader will.– Mark Twain

  • There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural. – Darynda Jones

    There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.– Darynda Jones

  • Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it. – William Goldman

    Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.– William Goldman

  • You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life. – Jim George

    You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.– Jim George

  • Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader… – Owen Wister

    Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader…– Owen Wister

  • Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove

    Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes– Falcon Dove

  • I don’t think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you’re a passionate reader, AND read passionately. – Michelle D Kwasney

    I don’t think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you’re a passionate reader, AND read passionately.– Michelle D Kwasney