Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief.… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. — John Leonard Copy Share Image
