“Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.” — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.” — Michael Siegel Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“But the problem with readers, the idea we're given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Changing Future History One Reader at a Time!” — Henri Rast fromer Chief Editor at Voyager Press Copy Share Image
