I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood 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
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head. — Honor Blackman 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
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:… — David Simon Copy Share Image
