The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
Captures the reader with true magic.
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.