#readers

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barely #been #cases #companies #four

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#computer #i #i am #intended #interest

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. ↗

— Voltaire

#bored #done #evil #i #know

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#especially #i #me #parish #readers

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. ↗

— John Green

#also #any #authors #books #desire

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#detection #early #feel #i #i can

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. ↗

— David Guterson

#compulsion #consider #deeply #duty #ethical

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ↗

— Albert Camus

#commentators #readers #those #who #write