A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.” — Kevin Smokler Copy Share Image
My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
