#reader

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #bad #began #careful #experience

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. ↗

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#different #read #readers #right #why

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

#fix #himself #house #knows #reader

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ↗

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #category #certain #continuously #growing

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#likely #majority #new #now #readers

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#enjoy #i #i write #much #myself

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