I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems,… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...]… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted a feeling of accumulation. I really wanted the moments to add up because they do add up. I wanted to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all… — Frederick Corder Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
