#readers

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#church #die #done #even #last

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#believe #crazy #grow #grow up #i

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#conviction #fall #fast #first #heroes

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#attaining #become #desire #ease #greatest

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work. ↗

— Matt Groening

#could #drawings #get #happiest #hard

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#each #entire #excited #got #had

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #live #paramount #readers #them

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#calling #crooks #future #i #most