If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.
I cherish my work and all of my readers.
. . . it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
Captures the reader with true magic.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.
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.
There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.