I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being… — Diane Duane 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
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
