“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I… — Dave Portnoy Copy Share Image
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
“Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it,… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at… — Carmen Johnson Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question:… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older,… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers. — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
