I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I… — Debbie Macomber 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
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do… — Orhan Pamuk 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
