The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
