Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
Neil Gaiman
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
Elizabeth George
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain... →
Mark Haddon
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
Mohsin Hamid
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.