Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon.… — Robert E. Vardeman Copy Share Image
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
