I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)” — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
To all my friends, readers, and students: I apologize for not being able to write you directly, however the God and Goddess… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.” — Kevin Smokler Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.” — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
“You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)” — Inigo Garcia Ureta Copy Share Image
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience;… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
