Readers Quotations | Page 3

I'd like to take this opportunity to again apologize to my readers for an oversight in not disclosing that I had done a small amount of work for the government in my specialty.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

I am thrilled for the opportunity to continue to serve this community. I hope to build on our tradition of accurately delivering important news to our readers first.

But, again, the last twenty years have seen big changes in how writers engage their readers, what readers need to expect from any kind of art.

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back of the book, they don't see someone who looks like their mother.

I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

For years, V for Vendetta has been a cornerstone of the growing graphic novel category. Having the movie help drive sales to bestseller levels will continue to attract new readers to graphic novels.

From today onward, let us summon our readers that we may in the East also create a miracle worthy of this era.

If a book doesn't grab me in the first chapter, I may not bother with it, ... As writers we're told that you have to catch readers in the first paragraph, but that is easier said than done.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.

He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught me, and many architects, that we must answer this demand and never stop challenging ourselves.

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

We?re on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We?re going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.

We're offering a concrete business model with which we can go forward with vendor partners to allow readers access to the contents of our books in way that satisfies readers' interest in sampling and discovery.

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

What we do now is complicated. We look forward to having all our operations under one roof. This will be a positive move for our employees, our readers and our advertisers.

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Going to cons is almost always a money-losing affair. You do it to meet your readers and show the flag with a hope of attracting new readers.

He was really a neophyte when I first read his work. The O'Neill had rejected it five times, but the sixth time one of my readers said he had improved a great deal. He had learned to write dialogue, and now he was learning to write confrontations between two people.

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

He created a fantasy world that invites readers to consider the moral and psychological realities of our world.

Keeping the bits is not enough - you need to be able to recreate from them something that readers in decades and centuries to come will be able to use.

Keep public editors around, give readers more access to the editors of the paper, constantly challenge itself, and be aware of its own history.

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Joe's depth of experience and expertise in these markets will contribute significantly to serving our readers relevant and useful information. We are delighted to bring this level of representation to Cardiology Review and Resident & Staff Physician.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should.

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

I think we have the best weekly newspaper in the Houston region. Our readers tell us over and over (although we never get tired of hearing it) that they love the Observer . We love it too!

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

I think these stories humanize celebrities and make our readers feel so much better because they can see that celebrities aren't perfect. Not even they have a professional hair person and full-blown body makeup every day.

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.

Our industry is changing and readers and viewers want news now, but they also want it with context and depth. I think things that we will be working on with WENY as our partner, from a collaborative standpoint, is looking at multimedia efforts on line.

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Our creation of a 50th Anniversary Gold Medal to honor Ms. Winfrey is an expression of gratitude -- not only on the part of our Foundation -- but also on behalf of the publishing community and the millions of readers whose lives have been enriched by her enthusiasm for books.

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online. Readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks.

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Our readers love celebrities, ... We cover the aspects of celebrity that our readers can most relate to -- romance, engagement, marriage, babies, shopping. It makes celebrities much more accessible to our reader, which is what she wants.

People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.

Some of the children are only in kindergarten; they'll sit there and tell Alexis about the pictures, and that's reading to them. They feel free because it's just Alexis and myself and the child; no other kids listening to them, no moms in the room to correct pronunciation. We ask the parents nicely to let this be for readers only. We stress this as 'free' time.

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

My readers are just that age where they are all into what's new.

Look at the divorce rate. In fact, it's women over 40 who are driving the divorce rate. That's the only place where the divorce rate is going up. What I hear from our readers is that women, until their 40s, are with men who are about their age, and they're really on the trajectory of feeling ever more confident and more adventurous, and the guys become more and more in that rut you were talking about. Somebody said to me once: Find a guy in a rut, and he'll lie down in it.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

I think he felt he was part of a Hollywood community. He would do wedding announcements and birth announcements. He wasn't interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits. And my readers are much more interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits.

I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

We need to present both sides' arguments, both sides of the coin, as fairly and as accurately as possible, and really let the readers make their own decision. Marvel readers come in all shapes and sizes, and we speak to so many different people, different demographics. It's unfair for us to make this our bully pulpit and sit there and say, 'This bad. That good.'.

We invite authors to communicate with their readers in a way that hasn't before been possible. Amazon Connect brings the author's message to the reader instead of waiting for the reader to find the message.

Winning this award is a great honor for Archer because the recognition comes from the readers of SC magazine who implement and use our products. We owe this award to our customers who work closely with us to develop more intuitive products to meet their changing security and compliance requirements. Our product development is greatly influenced by their needs.

We continue to hear from our readers that they want the information offered in the Business Journal on a more frequent basis. Publishing every other week will give those readers what they've been asking for, while giving us the opportunity to better serve the business community by providing more information in a timelier manner.

We couldn't do this without the generosity of the writers in this state. But they always seem so excited to get together with each other and their readers in this setting.

We hope my readers will get a kick out of that and realize that it's another manifestation of Tempe, and they are in on this inside joke,

We are thrilled to be offering our readers the chance to partake in these rewarding and extraordinary bonus deals, and can't wait to see them take on the pros at this year's World Series, We hope the experiences they have battling James Woods heads-up at Hollywood Poker later this year serve to further prepare them for the Main Event. Woods is as respected at the green felt table as he is on the silver screen, and will no doubt give both of our winners a run for their money!

We wanted to inform our readers of a story that had violence spawned by imagery. We felt they wouldn't be adequately informed if they couldn't see the imagery that was the root of this entire story.

Using "power copy" is the key to an effective digital communication. If your readers don't relate your words with your brand you don't stand a chance

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

We get a lot of complaints from readers about packaging that drives them crazy. We, too, have pet peeves about certain package designs. So we asked our readers for specifics, and we went out and bought the worst examples of horrific packaging we could find.

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

Two weeks ago we celebrated the highest ever sale in the Guardian's 184-year history. Seven days later we broke that record again. The feedback on the new paper from readers and advertisers has been overwhelmingly positive.

You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.

We are really excited about this promotion because it gives our readers a chance to interact, ... Readers can exchange valuable tips on subjects such as dealing with food allergies in school to what brand of clothing holds up the best during recess.

We posted that in the early evening. That generated extensive coverage in the media, most of which credited USA TODAY. We then gave our readers an extended interview and full details in the next day's paper.

We're eager to have our readers be able to read the newspaper in 18 to 19 minutes. My wife calls it 'Newspapers Without Guilt.' I can read the newspaper, get through this newspaper before it goes on the recycling stack.

The readers of these books spent a lot of time with books, they know them inside and out, ... They have very strong opinions how they should look on the screen. If you don't execute a movie they approve of, they can turn on you very quickly.

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks

Tim (who farmed in Iowa and managed a grain elevator at the time) and Joan had four kids and they are avid readers and watched the (1980s) TV show. They went up there twice on vacation. It was just an irrigated soybean field when Tim bought it. We always worked with Tim and his family and we wanted to do what it took to make it go.

We work for the readers - not the shareholders. My friend Peter Jennings, who died last month, and Ted Koppel, your 2000 Red Smith lecturer, served their audience - not their corporate parent. They work their sources, but they do not trim their reporting to please sources. Journalists in television too often chase ratings while print journalists too often chase headlines. However, day in and day out, Jennings, like Koppel, tried to offer citizens information we need to make decisions for our democracy. The best journalists and the best officials are public servants. What flows from this assumption are some pretty startling conclusions.

We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

We learned a lot while we were researching these articles. Our readers who enjoy wine will really enjoy learning about it as well.

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

When readers or listeners come across these tired expressions, they start tuning out and completely miss the message -- assuming there is one,

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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

We thought it was very important to tell our readers that the reaction to these cartoons was outrageous and that reaction needed some sort of condemnation by the free world and that this was inappropriate and we needed to speak up.

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

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