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• Readers are made by readers.

  Aidan Chambers

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• Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

  C.D. Wright

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• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  James Patterson

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• I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

  Katherine Paterson

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• I’d rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

  Hugh Howey

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• My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It’s an escape. It’s the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.

  Hugh Howey

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• Honestly, I don’t think I’m a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase my work. That’s not the job of the author. We should write our best material and leave it up to readers to spread the word.

  Hugh Howey

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• One of the many things that surprised me about ‘Wool’ is how many of its fans don’t consider themselves science fiction readers.

  Hugh Howey

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• I’m such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it’s a great way for readers to become writers. It’s like putting the training wheels on for writing.

  Hugh Howey

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• We’re journalists, so our default position is we’re not writing editorial. We’re trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

  Tim Hetherington

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• My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

  Lisi Harrison

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• I teach 18- to 21-year-olds – the ‘Harry Potter’ generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope ‘A Discovery of Witches’ will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

  Deborah Harkness

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• I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that’s the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

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• It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations – it’s a crazy, wild gift.

  Karen Russell

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• 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.

  Karen Russell

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• The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

  Henry Brooks Adams

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  Books belong to their readers.

  John Green

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• I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o’clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

  Gerrit Smith

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• There are certain things in ‘Twilight’… As much as I’m proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it’s a first-person narrative.

  Kristen Stewart

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• Lord Chamberlain’s readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

  Timothy West

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