Reader Quotes


Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. - Elie Wiesel


Writing is hard for me... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out. - Tess Gerritsen


Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. - John Barton


Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. - R. A. Salvatore


Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. - Aldous Huxley


Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. - Mary Wortley Montagu


Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. - Brian Lumley


World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. - Ken Follett


Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. - Carolyn Heilbrun


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