I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
