It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly. — Patrick O'Brian 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
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It’s not what happens to people on the page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.” — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
