If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's… — Otis Chandler Copy Share Image
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work. — Gabriel Fackre Copy Share Image
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
