It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
David Nicholls
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
Patrick O'Brian
I've always been a big reader.
Stewart O'Nan
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
Tea Obreht
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was... →
David Ogilvy
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
Michael Ondaatje
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar... →
Chuck Palahniuk
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
George Plimpton
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
Donald Ray Pollock