Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing… — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Based on personal experience and not just on theory, Prayerwalk, offers readers practical insights on how to get up, get moving, and… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
