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
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone.… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
