Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there… — Nas Copy Share Image
I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
“This book is for you, the reader. Without you, this book wouldn't be possible. None of this would be.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
