I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“the words in your copy should be “like the windows in a storefront. The reader should be able to see right through… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include… — Charles Rolls Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
