“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.” — after Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.” — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me .… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
