I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved… — Walt Simonson Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I am sometimes referred to as Excuse Me in an annoyed tone of voice, because apparently I am in the way. I… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the… — Leslie Parrish Copy Share Image
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective! — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
