#reader

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Mark Twain

#discover #his #ideally #order #own

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#rare #readers #thinkers

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ↗

— Lee Child

#idiot #job #keep #long #plan

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

I'm a slow reader. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#reader #slow

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #kiss #like #precisely #reader

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#anything #believe #haven #i #know