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The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
