To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work,… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
