I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in… — Sheri Cobb South Copy Share Image
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
