The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's… — Adam Hughes Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of… — Evelyn Lauder Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good… — Avi Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image