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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning…

— Arlo Guthrie

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

— Jim Cummings

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…

— Paulo Coelho