#readers

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I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.


Tracy Kidder


#book #effort #find #i #lot

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.


Fred Saberhagen


#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.


Nathalie Sarraute


#like #people #poet #poetry #readers

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.


Natan Sharansky


#appreciate #around #critically #democracy #essential

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.


Sidney Sheldon


#any #care #characters #everything #feel

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.


Dan Simmons


#art #art form #authors #believe #best

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

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.


Kathryn Stockett


#family #i #i wonder #interesting #know