#reader

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#does #dream #profession #reader #thorns

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#demand #either #freedom #increase #mean

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#quote #reader #well #wise #wisely

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#full #may #readers #world #writers

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#readers-and-writers #reading #writing #writing-craft #writing-process

...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ... ↗

— John Geddes

#heart-reader #poetry-love #words #love

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational