#readers

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

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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

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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. ↗

— Donald Norman

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Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

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Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. ↗

— William Safire

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I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. ↗

— Diane Duane

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