Ravi Subramanian Quotes

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

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.

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

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

Chicago is my biggest base for U.S. readership. If I ask my readers where should I come, Chicago always has the most votes.

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

I read three books a week.

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.