#readers

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#france #harvard #i #lot #me

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

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

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

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#kids #readers #reading #funny

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#books #both #each #easy #having

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#feel #first #like #person #readers

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#experience #gives #history #life #literature