#reader

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#attention #care #i #i can #i care

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#complete #country #decide #democracy #education

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#ask #back #bbc #bring #decided

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#back #books #cholera #fire #going

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#even #had #i #million #online

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#acknowledge #although #analysis #between #did

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #characters #every #feeling #knows

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ↗

— William H. Gass

#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment