For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about. — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
“The reader lives a thousand lives, while the non-reader only lives one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to. — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
Lansens is a willing storyteller… As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith 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
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again. — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
