366 Quotes About Reader

Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.