#reader

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#attaining #become #desire #ease #greatest

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#because #before #being #buy #career

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#author #between #i #i write #new

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work. ↗

— Matt Groening

#could #drawings #get #happiest #hard

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

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#book #box #deep #door #each

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#art #conceal #his #may #novel

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#like #make #might #mistake #readers

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#believe #between #constant #hand #i