I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
“The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his… — Rakesh Satyal Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions… — Warren Bennis Copy Share Image
I have a very positive outlook on things. It's hard to predict how actual books are going to do but I'm not… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to… — Del Quentin Wilber Copy Share Image
“I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels,… — Carole Gill Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect… — Kapil Kumar bhaskar Copy Share Image
“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If I told you that my global audience has shot up 100% in the last six months, what would you say? If… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
