To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does

Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don’t care about your blog.

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

I’ve been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it’s too easy to write about my last trick or something. It’s not very interesting to the reader

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

I’ve read quite a few readers’ reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, ‘Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.’ I don’t do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking – which has really been harmful.

A book is a conversation between the writer and the reader.

A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, a meeting of minds across time and space

The writer’s job is to create an experience for the reader that is as close as possible to the experience he had when he wrote the book

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

Sometimes, readers, when they’re young, are given, say, a book like ‘Moby Dick’ to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it’s not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you’ll really love to read, necessarily.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn’t a reader yet has just not found the right book.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

She encourages readers to take pride in their heritage and to use it as a source of strength and inspiration.