Reader Support Quotes

Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money.

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off.

We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

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

I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me.

I have the most loyal readers in the world.

I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of 'Girl Online.' I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book!

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

The most important relationship the 'Guardian' has is with its readers.

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.