#readers

Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, they can shout from the rooftops “This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to make their review all about how their dog Foot Foot especially loved to pee on that particular book, they can. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#books #readers #reviews #love

The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. ↗

— R.S. Guthrie

#indie-books #readers #life

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#alone

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#readers #reading #reading-books #dance

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#e-readers #kindle #reading #read

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#anything #because #being #could #enough

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ↗

— Lee Child

#idiot #job #keep #long #plan

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. ↗

— Leon Uris

#book #corps #first #i #marine

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#admit #because #cease #compels #i