The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a reader... Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“I could tell you were a reader when I first saw you. You have that dreamy look in your eye, like you're… — Bethany Hagen Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“However, I'm here to tell you dear reader that there is always more than meets the eye.” — Isabella Kruger Copy Share Image
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made. — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is… — Jennie Shortridge Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
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