#readers

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#full #may #readers #world #writers

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#book #brought #capture #different #grateful

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #criticism #humor #interpretation #literature

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#books #readers #reading #bullying

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#function #governments #i #i think #known

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. ↗

— Paul Conrad

#cartoons #close #come #editorial #editorials

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#being #draws #first #get #holding