A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after;… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
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I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
