If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
“...every time a choice is made, we end up playing out a different scene – like a chose your own adventure book.” — Claudia Lefeve Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.” — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
“The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright.… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“A good story transports the reader to a new place via experience. Not through arguments or facts, but through the illusion that… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“It is very useful for those who minister the word of God, or give themselves up to prayer, to read the works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam]… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“There are three shelves with about forty books on each shelf. As I look through them, I am hoping for something that… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“It will teach you to craft villains so brilliantly twisted they’ll make your readers throw themselves like sacrificial lambs between the pages… — Sacha Black Copy Share Image
All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Finding an Agent is not a problem. Finding a publisher is not a problem. Finding readers now that's a problem.” — Roy A Higgins Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I don’t see books. I see doors into other worlds. Windows into minds. The life of man spinning beyond time.” — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
![“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step.” quote by Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/edgar-allan-poe-315_books_if-a-short-story-author-s-very-initial-s_3019224.jpg)
![“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.” quote by Jonathan Yardley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/jonathan-yardley-53847_books_one-of-my-pet-theories-is-that-readers-h_754322.jpg)
