Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
“You know him reader, that refined monster, – Hypocritish reader, – my fellow, – my brother !” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency -… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
