#readers

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

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#citizens #make #note #our #positive

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#goes #i #i love #i wish #less

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#kids #readers #reading #funny

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. ↗

— Diane Duane

#after #being #doing #forty #forty years

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#because #before #deserve #give #i

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers. ↗

— David Talbot

#because #been #beneficial #bush #bush presidency

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