If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

- Andy Weir

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

- Barbara Demick

I am not a big reader to begin with.

- Billy Burke

I'm a slow reader.

- Benicio Del Toro

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

- Aidan Chambers

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

- Andrew Pyper

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

- A. E. van Vogt

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

- Antonya Nelson

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

- Anita Diament

I am not a good cue card reader.

- Adam Carolla

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

- Arthur Slade

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

- Andrea Riseborough

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

- Augusten Burroughs

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

- Arthur Smith

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

- Anthony Horowitz

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

- Anthony Horowitz

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

- Ansel Elgort

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

- Anne Tyler

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

- Ann Leckie