“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.” — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
“Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there's always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“reading a book, or remembering something I heard on the radio last week, or admiring the flowers on the table, I am… — Geoffrey Durham Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am… — Nicole Polizzi Copy Share Image
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“As for your back rubs... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
