I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
