It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli": "According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies." ” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
