The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader.… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.' — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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