I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
A dislike button especially after the quote doesnt mean the lack of thinking of its writer but it probably describes the ignorance… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other… — George Arthur Crump Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano 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
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
“Dedicated to every reader who set out on this journey with me and who has now come to its end.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our… — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
