As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At that point only two things were clear to me: first, that the plot had to move readers as much as it… — Antonio Garrido Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Copy Share Image
The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books, and be with the wife and… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
“If you can read this, then surprise! You're probably a demigod too. That's because only demigods - and a few special mortals,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience… — Andrew Zuckerman Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well,… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“The setting, concerns, and mood of The Woodlanders are consonant with the Wessex of the earlier novels. There is an element of… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's,… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs… — Erica Cope Copy Share Image
I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“I’m on my knees in front of Vaughan West. Sure, I’m only pinning his pants, but still… it’s one for the books.” — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author.” — Oran Kangas Copy Share Image
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done. — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
“I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
