I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
