Books Quote by A.G. Riddle

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But…

— Stephen King

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always…

— Maggie Shayne

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.…

— Mortimer J. Adler

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

— Mortimer Adler

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

— Emanuel Lasker

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the…

— Garrison Keillor

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't…

— Ernest Hemingway

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've…

— Charles de Lint

“The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.”

— Chelsea Martin

It didn't matter that the story had begun, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have…

— The God Of Small Things

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

— Jim Sturgess