#reader

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#books #reader #reading #speaking #thinking

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#interesting #keep #memoir #mind #necessarily

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#i #make #much #reader #remember

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#goes #i #i love #i wish #less

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

#any #easily #expect #fast #grasped

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. ↗

— John Barton

#ideal #knows #only #reader #who

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#danger #fiction #may #more #readers

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! ↗

— Greg Bear

#contact #egalitarian #get #great #like

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel