I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.
Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too.
Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.
If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
Reader, I married him.
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.