Readers Quotes

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. - Mark Haddon

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. - Horace

You have to present learning in a different way at times, but do it in a challenging way to not distract the intense readers. We have to do it because not every student comes in at grade-level reading. It's not successful each time, but you try to bring the joy back to some of the students who are behind. - Carol Clarke

You get the readers familiar with the designers, you show them what works, and sometimes you actually tell them what to buy. It can't get more basic than that. - Angelica Cheung

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. - Ian Mcewan

You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term. - Michael Freeman

You can't alienate those core readers. - Al Smith

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. - Carl Hiaasen

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. - John Barton

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. - R. A. Salvatore