#readers

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. ↗

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. ↗

— Carl Barks

#characters #difference #face #going #life

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

#exploitative #few #i #like #link

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#autobiography #be grateful #been #between #commissioned

For people who are readers, reading is important to them. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#people #readers #reading #them #who

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. ↗

— Jim Davis

#children #comic #comic strip #english #garfield

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. ↗

— Peter Davison

#because #every #find #good #i

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love #only #only love #place #readers