Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective! — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as… — Marjorie Holmes 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
Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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
“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm… — Anthony Hopkins 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
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer Copy Share Image
Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
