You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile… — Don DeLillo 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 reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved… — Thorne Smith Copy Share Image
I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image