Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Iris Johansen

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Garry Trudeau

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

Lev Grossman

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

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

Laini Taylor

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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.

George MacDonald

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

Katherine Dunn

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Twyla Tharp

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

Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

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.

Tom T. Hall

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Joseph J. Ellis

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

Zadie Smith

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