The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience;… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
