I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not. — Ajith Kumar Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
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