Readership Quotes

Readership Quote of the day

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.