I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage? — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“Always give your reader credit for being smart enough to figure out what you want to say.” — Daniel Schwabauer Copy Share Image
In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace Copy Share Image
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
