#readers

I don't want to force my politics on my readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#i #politics #readers #want

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#likely #majority #new #now #readers

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#because #chance #character #comfortable #generally

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. ↗

— Philip Levine

#advice #care #doing #going #happens

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#feds #figures #flip #higher #indictment

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#expect #fiction #follow #genre #readers