The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it… — Minor White Copy Share Image
“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it… — Nina Bernstein Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
