#readers

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

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#citizens #make #note #our #positive

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#guys #i #know #love #readers

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

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

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

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing? ↗

— Evan Hunter

#am #i #readers #why #writing

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

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