First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it… — Minor White Copy Share Image
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it… — Nina Bernstein Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to… — Andy Rooney 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
But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access… — Rivka Galchen 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 tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
To all my friends, readers, and students: I apologize for not being able to write you directly, however the God and Goddess… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
