#readers

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#experience #gives #history #life #literature

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters

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

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#called #come #cooks #could #enough

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#criticisms #editorial #feedback #free #friends

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#disbelief #government #readers #reporters #spoken

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#culture #games #high #i #including

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. ↗

— Gary Ross

#could #created #debt #depths #disappeared

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i