[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.
a good reader makes a good book
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic. . . to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.