#reader

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader. ↗

— Gary Ross

#book #communicating #day #directly #end

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' ↗

— Gary Ross

#after #creates #else #first #games

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#care #change #controversial #facets #her

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#bring #dead #indeed #life #readers

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction. ↗

— James Rollins

#become #book #booksellers #both #direction

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#books #enjoy #fantasy #fiction #genre

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

I'm a lousy reader. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

#lousy #reader

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. ↗

— Mary Grandpre

#away #book #essence #get #giving