The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only… — Walter Benjamin 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
I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
