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I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
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How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy… — Sara Craven Copy Share Image
“It’s no surprise that readers are better people. Having experienced someone else’s life through abstract eyes, they’ve learned what it’s like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
“Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale… — Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers'… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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