Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers… — Dorothy Gish Copy Share Image
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
