Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Eudora Welty

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Henning Mankell

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Garry Trudeau

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Lev Grossman

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Susan Vreeland

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Tom T. Hall

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Katherine Dunn

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

Marco Arment

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Joseph J. Ellis

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

Laini Taylor

I've always been a reader and a writer.

George MacDonald

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Zadie Smith

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Twyla Tharp

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.